[Spacewalk-list] Show differences between profiled config files and deployed config files

[Mertens, Bram]

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> From: spacewalk-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:spacewalk-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Stuart Green
> Sent: woensdag 24 juli 2013 11:05
> To: spacewalk-list at redhat.com
> Subject: [Spacewalk-list] Show differences between profiled config files and
> deployed config files
>
> Hey spacewalkers,
>
> I made a revision to one of my locally managed configuration files last
> night and waited to see what happened with the diff check.. I might be
> missing something, but the diff check shows as completed, fine it did..
> but the only way I know there was a actually a difference to alert me to
> is drilling all the way down to the Events history page of the server?
> Should it not be made more obvious a change has been made.. Moreover
> (and importantly) If someone changed the file on the server itself, i'd
> like to be 'alerted', I've not tested it this way round but presume the
> same as I found would apply.
>
> Greets,
> Stu

The spacecmd utility allows you to download the output of a remote command on the all systems it ran on.
I then use csplit to cut it into separate files and parse the output.

A more convenient built-in would indeed be very welcome.

Regards

Bram