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Questions tagged [configuration-management]

Using software to track changes on a system to deploy them to many systems. Common tools are puppet, chef, and cfengine.

  • Ubuntu Server Guide entry for Puppet.
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Can symlinks be used in /etc/cron.d/?

I'm trying to implement a configuration mechanism that allows a cron configuration to deploy through SVN. I immediately thought that what I should do is create symlinks from /etc/cron.d/ to my project's cron file (which in turn is controlled by a…
Luís Faceira
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What is the relationship between .gconf, .gnome2, .cache, .local, and other dot-file hierarchies in my home directory?

According to this answer, .local .cache and .config are, by convention, configuration storage locations adopted by Gnome and Ubuntu. Are .gnome .gnome2 and .gconf therefore legacy configuration directories, or are they supposed to co-exist? And…
belacqua
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Why is there only one configuration management tool in the main repository?

How is it that Cfengine does not exist in the Ubuntu (10.04 LTS) Main Repository? I can't find a discussion of this anywhere (using Google). The only configuration management in Ubuntu Main seems to be Puppet. I looked for a wide variety of others…
Mei
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How to sync Ubuntu/software/configurations between N computers with free software and/or without a cloud?

Note: this question is not about syncing data in a Dropbox-like way (files, folders), it is more about syncing configurations. I would like to have exactly the same version of Ubuntu with all the software installed and configured both on my Desktop…
skanatek
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How can I force all applications to use $XDG_CONFIG_HOME instead of ~/.APP?

As far as I understand, the XDG guidelines recommend that applications store their configuration in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/APP (usually ~/.config/APP) rather than ~/.APP (I'm not sure if there are also Debian/Ubuntu guidelines?). However, I have found a…
lofidevops
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How do I duplicate a server's packages and configuration to another machine?

I have a production server running Ubuntu. I would like to setup similar configuration installed on my local machine. I'd like to have same packages installed. Since bandwidth is a constraint the traditional disk cloning methods won't work for me.…
sharjeel
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Gconf-editor missing gnome-system-tools from tree

I am trying to to enable the /apps/gnome-system-tools/users/show_all flag that is supposed to be in gconf-editor. According to the Ubuntu community documentation, and many google searches, the key I want should be in the above location but the…
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Getting an error while mounting machine_config

I am trying to boot my system but, it is giving me an error as "An error occurred while mounting home/jack/jack-app/machine_config " Press S skip to mounting or M for manual recovery after this I restarted the system it worked…
Prakash H
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Can I migrate a tor hiddenservice from one user/PC to another?

Is there a way to migrate the hidden service from one PC to another? I have tried to put hiddenservice folder with host and private key in another tor, but got this error: Dec 24 00:11:38.793 [warn] /home/bibi/.hidden_service1/ is not owned by this…
Tedy
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How do I create an icon for a script or software that is available to every user whether new or existing

There seems to be lots of help in the FAQs for customizing Unity, even with dconf-editor and other tools. However, as an administrator of a large thin client installation, from time to time, there are special installations of educational software…
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Assign an icon to a custom mimetype

I tried to create a custom mimetype (text/graphml+xml) by creating the file ~/.local/share/mime/packages/graphml+xml-mime.xml with this content:
Ninguém
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Maximum number of clients reached?

I installed an Ubuntu Server (Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS) with the proxy Squid and Privoxy. Everything worked fine except ... When there are several Windows computers (no matter the Windows version) that connect to my Ubuntu Server via my proxy to go on the…
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Creating a .deb that just places/updates config files?

I was surprised to not find more people asking this question, but so far I've only found one from a couple of years ago, with not much in the way of responses. First, some background on what I'm actually trying to accomplish here: I am working on a…
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Checklist for upgrading a very out of date install

Background: My last upgrade was from 9.04 to 9.10, and it did not go well. I lost a lot of my settings and spent way too much time reinstalling packages that I though I already had. Last April, I was very busy and didn't feel like spending all my…
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What is the proper way to install Puppet on a server?

Possible Duplicate: How do I install a puppetmaster? We've got several Ubuntu 10.04 servers and I'm looking to deploy Puppet for configuration management. The machines already have RVM installed with Ruby 1.9.2 as default. I've tried running…
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