<quote who="David Z Maze"> > This seems like a common enough problem that anybody sufficiently > geeky (say, who has a Debian machine at home and some Unixy machine > at work/school) would have run into it. Are there any pre-canned, > or at least not-too-groady home-baked solutions out there?
i run about 35 debian systems, 4 of which i use heavily daily(the rest are mostly dedicated servers). and i run another 20 sun sparc solaris systems/ibm aix/tru64 etc. maybe im not geeky enough but my dotfiles are always empty. about the only thing i keep in sync is my ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file. i modify the /etc/profile to do some minor things on login on the systems but nothing in the .bashrc .bash_login .bash_logout .profile or .cshrc .login etc etc..except the defaults ...my authorized_keys file is kept in synch manually(it changes once every few months at the most) if your dotfiles don't have anything too important on them you may be able to put them on a central webserver and have wget or lynx download them upon login. or put them on a ftp and use wget or lynx or ncftpget. you'd have to do the initial download manually but after that..it should be automatic. some of my friends have several pages of dotfiles, i just never had a need to customize them. i guess i just use so many different systems i don't want to get used to special aliases or shortcuts to commands then i will get confused when i move to a system that doesn't have such a setup. you'd have to modify the copy on the webserver and the synch would only be one way..but depending on the situation that would probably be a good thing. otherwise you may have systems overwriting each other's dotfiles not saving all the changes. i don't know about you but i usually stay logged into hosts for days or weeks at a time. has worked fine for me for years .. nate
