[techtalk] Re: Write down while you are modifying the system... (was: [techtalk] New here)

[James Sutherland]

On Sun, 29 Apr 2001, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:

> On Sunday 29 April 2001 12:49, Sandrine Burriel wrote:
> ..
> > I'm
> ..
> > using linux occasionnally (because I'm mostly required to work
> > on windows...) but willing to learn.  I'm supposed to trade my
> > old Mandrake 7.1 this week for a slackware or deb, still not
> > sure... If you want to give me some advice, feel free to do so !
>
>
> My advise is just one little phrase:
>
>
>    Keep track of any changes you are making to the default configuration!

Absolutely! Ideally, of course, you'd keep all your config files in a CVS
tree and so be able to track every revision - yeah, right...

Has anyone here actually tried using something like CVS to track /etc??


James.