[okfn-help] Setting you up as a sysadmin ...

Thu Jun 4 19:27:41 BST 2009

2009/6/4 James Casbon <casbon at gmail.com>:
> OK I added a casbon user with sudo rights on both us0 and eu0
> machines.  I'm a bit concerned about this:
> http://knowledgeforge.net/okfn/tasks/wiki/EtcInSubversionHowto
> I should commit my changes but I'm scared the permissions will get
> blown away - this won't happen right?

No that shouldn't happen.

> There are also uncommited changes that someone else made - so I need
> to understand why they were not committed.   Is this a mistake?

I think this was me! (One generally wants to avoid uncommitted changes
for exactly this reason). I've committed the relevant files now.

I note there exists a debian package called etckeeper which might be
useful in the future ...

Rufus