i have a little utility i wrote to insert a defined configuration into an installed OS, and later bring forward any modifications to that configuration, modifying configs or just copying files as necessary. it's strengths are keeping clear sets of backups of everything modified, and informing me not only what's being modified, but more importantly whether perchance anything being replaced had been modified by other than me. other things i like about it, it has no daemon, it has no requirements other than bash, ssh, and rsync, it allows the system to remain entirely vanilla. at this juncture i find myself wanting to improve this little utility to be more flexible, to work with more variations in configurations. at the same time i am wondering whether my precious time is better spent improving my utility, or searching amongst the confoundingly rich array of configuration management software already available. when i do glance around, what i see is way more complicated than i want. i solicit your thoughts and recommendations. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20100810/f1253e94/attachment.htm