Introduction

I use a lot of Unix systems in my life, for personal business and for work. One of the major problems I've had with doing this is dealing with the small differences between platforms and networks, and just keeping my configurations consistent between them. The uber-config is my attempt to have one set of configuration files and use them everywhere.

And since I had such a nice setup, I figured I might as well share it.

Packages

The following packages have entries in the uber-config:

Setup Hints

The uber-config is based on a CVS tree; all clients connect via SSH to get a copy of the files. Everything is stored in ~/.config, appropriate symlinks are then made into the tree. A basic initialization script follows:

c!/bin/bash DATE=`date +%Y-%m-%d` mkdir ~/.old-${DATE} for i in ~/.cshrc ~/.tcshrc ~/.abcde.conf ~/.login ~/.lynxrc ~/.lynx.cfg \ ~/.vimrc ~/.nn ~/.gnupg ~/.subversion ~/.bashrc do if [ -f $i ] ; then mv $i ~/.old-${DATE} else echo "no $i to move" fi done ## If appropriate procmail scripts are there, set those up instead; same goes ## for cronjobs and such. ~/.config/bin/getcron ln -s ~/.config/misc/abcde.conf ~/.abcde.conf ln -s ~/.config/cshrc ~/.cshrc ln -s ~/.config/login ~/.login # ln -s ~/.config/tcshrc ~/.tcshrc ln -s ~/.config/vim/vimrc.default ~/.vimrc ln -s ~/.config/bashrc ~/.bashrc ln -s ~/.config/gnupg ~/.gnupg ln -s ~/.config/subversion ~/.subversion mkdir ~/.nn ln -s ~/.config/nn/kill ~/.nn ln -s ~/.config/nn/init ~/.nn if ( -f ~/.config/screen/screenrc-`hostname` ); then ln -s ~/.config/screen/screenrc-`hostname` ~/.screenrc else ln -s ~/.config/screen/screenrc ~/.screenrc fi echo "You're on your own for mutt, nn and ssh"

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To Do

I'm not done with this package yet, not by a longshot... Here's my current to-do list.

o Firefox - bookmarks and such o newsrc? o Get the cron daily scripts to all run out of ~/.config/bin o SpamAssassin configuration

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