I’m updating the configurations by script using cron every midnight.

In this article I just wanted to show what are the possibilities of having config files in SVN repository, because it’s good idea (according me). You can easily track the changes on the machines.

I agree it can be handy to have machines grouped by OS type. I prefer to keep configs per hosts – because if something is not working well on the box I can see all it’s changes.

But it’s just my preference….

I’m sure everybody can script these svn commits/updates and create it’s own solution – here I describe the way how I did it…

See you and good luck…

PetrR

This looks good, but how are you updating your configuration files on the servers? ln -s?

We are kicking around this idea as well, but we are going a different route with it.

Grouping all of our machines based on type. so we will have:
/reporoot
/Linux
/Solaris
/AIX
/…

I would much rather update three files, instead of 250.