Martin F. Krafft wrote: > okay, with the preserve option i have succeeded at preserving the file > permissions
If you get /etc-in-cvs to fully work, I'd really like to see a mini-howto detailing what you did. I use cvs for my home directory (and it's quite cool to walk up to a box you last used 1 year ago, type cvs up & sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and get your complete environment synced up), and have always wanted to use it for /etc, but there are so many problems I've never gotten there. I'm not sure if the preserve option works with remote cvs checkouts btw. Reccommend looking in the cvs info page. -- see shy jo
