A trick to keeping track of administrative changes to a service
There is a handy trick I use to keeping track of changes made to the configuration of a system, and one which I sometimes neglect in my rush. It has changed a bit over the years, and I never did figure out how to do it on AIX, where unlike other UN*X versions, the configuration was stored in a database called Object Data Manager, or simply ODM. The trick is track the changes using some form of version control. At first, this was Revision Control System, or RCS, and from what I recall from those days, to say that it was "far from ideal" was an understatement.