[wellylug] Re: Registry type question

[Grant McLean]

Stephen Judd wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 20:07, Damon Lynch wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 09:30, Grant McLean wrote:
> > > 
> > > The primary advantage of the Unix approach is openness
> > > - it's easy to read/search/modify text files using the
> > > wealth of tools which come with Unix.  
> > 
> > Just tonight an non-government organisation in Bangalore 
> > had a question for me about their postfix configuration. 
> > They just had to e-mail me the config files main.cf and
> > aliases.  Let me tell you, it makes remote
> > trouble shooting a lot easier ;-)
> 
> Which reminds me - versioned config files in CVS. Tasty.

There was an interesting article in Linux Journal which merged 
that idea with Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS).  While not
claiming it was a replacement for say tripwire, the author was
using CVS to version all his system config files and running
a 'cvs upd' regularly to find uncomitted changes.  Then if his
system was compromised, CVS could tell him not only which files
had been changed, but also which bit was different - tres cool!

Grant

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