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

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Colin Watson wrote:

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

No worries. I chose good over evil.

>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.

Hopefully that's all the OP would need. Anyone who's doing multiple
edits to files in /etc would hopefully already be keeping meticulous
notes of the changes in case one or more roll-backs are needed or so
all the changes can be repeated again another time.

>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.

Interesting. I, too, find them to be clutter, but I leave them on and
then run around behind the programs that litter my drive with them and
clean them up manually. I only ever get rid of them in directories I
visit all the time. I'd leave them in place in the /etc directory.

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Little Girl

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