Along those lines is etckeeper: http://fnords.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/etckeeper-chronicles-4/ http://fnords.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/etckeeper-chronicles-...

Along those lines is etckeeper: http://fnords.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/etckeeper-chronicles-4/ http://fnords.wordpress.com/2009/03/05/etckeeper-chronicles-... Edit: if you are worried about your crontab files from users then version /var/spool/cron/