On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 05:50:19PM +0200, Martin F. Krafft wrote: | i/we operate a number of remote servers, and sometimes, configuration | is impossible because of slow links; then, vi takes 10 seconds to | start, and a keystroke is echoed in 5... unacceptable. | | so i would like to change configuration remotely, and currently, i | rsync the /etc trees to a local directory, update, then rsync back. | however, this requires a lot of discipline, and is not a viable method | with multiple maintainers. | | CVS is pretty much exactly what i am looking for. i would love to | create a CVS repository each for every one of the remote machines. | then everyone could checkout and commit, and a cron job on the actual | remote machine could bring the local /etc up to date with the CVS | repository every 4 hours or so.
CVS is designed for concurrent development -- you don't "checkout" files, you just modify and then merge your changes with someone else's concurrent changes. Perhaps you could use RCS (because with RCS you checkout/lock files) on the remote system and rsync between the checkout directory on the remote system and a temp directory on your local system. This would prevent people from simultaneously making changes to files. Vim 6 has support for remote editing of files, so if you want to try that it may help too. -D
