System administration utility

[warlord at MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)]

Why not just use RCS (or CVS)?  Then you also get revision control
and change history, as well as file locking.

-derek

Derek Martin <ddm at pizzashack.org> writes:

> For the sysadmins amongst us:  if you've ever worked in a group of
> sysadmins, and run into a situation where you've been editing some
> config file, only to find out another sysadmin was editing the same
> file at the same time and overwrote your changes, then here's the tool
> for you:
> 
>   http://sourceforge.net/projects/admedit/
> 
> This is a little utility I've been working on VERY sporadically for
> literally about 3 years, and it's finally of sufficient quality that
> I'm not embarrased to tell people about it.  I hope you find it
> useful.  Feedback and bugfixes are welcome.
> 
> Note that the locking mechanism is less than ideal (there's a race
> condition for files on NFS filesystems), but it mostly works...  I'll
> get around to re-working it sometime within the next two years. =8^)
> 
> 
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