RE: recording ONCONFIG changes

Tripwire or AIDE would do the trick too. -----Original Message----- From: owner-informix-list@iiug.org [mailto:owner-informix-list@iiug.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Leffler Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 2:16 AM To: informix-list@iiug.org Subject: Re: recording ONCONFIG changes mweallans@panacea.co.uk wrote: > Scanning the old messages I came across a "suspicion" from Neil Truby > that IDS 9.2 was't recording all changes to ONCONFIG in the message > log. > I've recently spent many days trying to find why a problem had > recurred and eventually I discovered that it was because a previous > change to ONCONFIG had been undone. The problem I now have is to find > out who undid the change, and why? > I thought I would find out when the change occurred but it doesn't > appear in the message log, which fortunately hasn't been cleared down > for a long time. > Does anybody know why all ONCONFIG changes are not recorded to the log? Because there isn't enough room in the reserved pages for all the parameters that can exist in the ONCONG file. > And what mechanisms can I use to track all the changes. I use RCS; you could use CVS, SCCS, Clearcase, Subversion, Perforce, Tour de Force, Tour de France - or any other configuration management package that takes your fancy. -- Jonathan Leffler #include <disclaimer.h> Email: jleffler@earthlink.net, jleffler@us.ibm.com Guardian of DBD::Informix v2005.01 -- http://dbi.perl.org/ sending to informix-list