I recently blogged about the virtue of putting PostgreSQL config files under version control. My attention was drawn to etckeeper, and a day or so ago I started playing with it, and it seems pretty nice. If you keep your configs in /etc like Debian/Ubuntu, then just deploying etckeeper is probably all you need to do. But if you are using Fedora, Redhat, Centos, or anything where the config files aren't in /etc, it's a little bit harder. But not too much. I found a nice little script at serverfault that you can put in etckeeper's commit.d directory that seems to do the trick and happily pulls files outside /etc into the repository. This seems like quite a good solution.
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