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In article <1il5f4INN6pq@fido.asd.sgi.com> pj@sgi.com writes:
>In article <1993Jan8.150400.20212@eagle.lerc.nasa.gov>, tohanson@gonzo.lerc.nasa.gov (Jeff Hanson) writes:
>|> It would be nice if administrators could add
>|> files to the list that inst has of configuration files.  This way we can
>|> use inst to control our configurations as well as those SGI supports.
>
>I'm not sure I understand this.
>
>Are you hoping that "versions changed" would emit names of your
>other config files that have changed (ie - have file.N or file.O
>variants visible)?  Nah - that doesn't sound right - and I'm at a
>loss for other guesses.

I'm not sure if this is what the original poster was talking about, but
for backing up non-user files on our SGI's, I use something like:

        versions -cm >file.list
        versions -e /usr/people user >>file.list

This gives a reasonably good list of everything that is part of the
system configuration, if you filter out directory names.  So, another
system can be set up the same way by installing from CD and adding
back just these files.  But this still leaves out a few system files
that I've changed but which are not known to inst as configuration
files.  These will still get clobbered when I upgrade IRIX, and I
will have to keep track of them on my own.

I noticed that /usr/lib/inst/userlist.exc is also not a configuration
file.  It might be nice if it were...

        - David Hinds
          dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu