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for old legacy systems, keeping /etc/ in RC is (and has been) a massive godsend. Its nice to see a rarely used bit of software from 31 years ago still being ma

by octo_t 13y ago

for old legacy systems, keeping /etc/ in RC is (and has been) a massive godsend. Its nice to see a rarely used bit of software from 31 years ago still being maintained.

jlas 13y ago
Nowadays I sometimes create a git repo in my /etc directory
- Gnewt 13y ago
  I use etckeeper, which is basically the same thing except with some nice hooks like auto-commit on apt-get install.
  - emillon 13y ago
    And fixes the permissions. With /etc in git it becomes world-readable.
    - lallysingh 13y ago
      A script that gets the current permissions for every file/dir and emits a chmod command for each one is pretty handy.
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