How to check what files have been customised in /etc?

Colin Watson cjwatson at ubuntu.com
Mon Dec 14 16:45:05 UTC 2020


On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 08:43:59AM -0500, Little Girl wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >Chris is trying to find the actual changes to the file contents.
> 
> And I'm trying to decide whether to use my powers of invisibility for
> good or evil. Choices, choices...

Sorry, I did read your reply but didn't have anything much to add to it
at the time!

However, editor auto-backups (even if enabled) often only cover one
previous version at most - at least for my own systems I'm not sure how
much they'd help.  No direct experience though, as I find editor
auto-backups to be clutter and almost invariably turn them off in favour
of version control systems.  Maybe Chris finds differently.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]




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