Best way to copy local changes between hosts

[Dominick Grift]

On Wed, 2011-09-21 at 13:47 -0800, Erinn Looney-Triggs wrote:
> I am using puppet to manage my system configuration and I am looking for
> the best way to manage file context changes between multiple hosts.
> 
> Basically I have some local changes that are held in
> /etc/selinux/targeted/modules/active/file_contexts.local, is it
> reasonable just to copy this file to hosts that need to be aware of the
> changes held therein or is there a better method?
> 
> This would be implemented on RHEL 5 and 6 systems.

I guess the following might be the preferred way:

> Managing multiple machines
>        Multiple machines that need the same customizations.
>        Extract customizations off first machine, copy them
>        to second and import them.
> 
>        # semanage -o /tmp/local.selinux
>        # scp /tmp/local.selinux secondmachine:/tmp
>        # ssh secondmachine
>        # semanage -i /tmp/local.selinux
> 
>        If these customizations include file context, you need to apply the
>        context using restorecon.

From: "man semanage"

> Thanks,
> -Erinn
> 
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