The Documenting of configuration changes is an unpopular task. conflogger helps with automatic documentation.

conflogger writes information about changes of [config]-file to a logfile

Usage: conflogger FILE

Conflogger is a console tool that calls an editor.

After closing the editor, conflogger asks for information about the change and writes it to a log-file. The log-file and editor is freely selectable, the settings are save at the configuration file.

conflogger will look for a configuration file in the users home directory located at ~/. conflogger.conf. At the first start conflogger create a configuration file.

LOGFILE=configInfo
EDITOR=gedit

To use a shared common LOGFILE exemple "/var/log/conflogger.log" Generate as SU the LOGFILE with the writing authorisation

Example config file: “.conflogger.conf”

LOGFILE=/var/log/conflogger.log
EDITOR=gedit

$ conflogger /etc/example/config.com

start conflogger

      -> read config "~/.conflogger.conf"

      -> call EDITOR to open </etc/example/config.com>

      <- close EDITOR

 conflogger ask ChangeInfo:

      -> write ChangeInfo to log-file

 end conflogger

$ cat configInfo |grep FILE

Sat Jan  7 17:42:24 2017 hostname user: FILE - Change Information ...........................
Thu Jan 12 18:57:31 2017 hostname user: FILE - Change Information ...........................
Thu Jan 12 19:58:52 2017 hostname user: FILE - Change Information ...........................
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Download 'conflogger.deb' and install with dpkg:

sudo dpkg -i /PATH-TO-PACKAGE/conflogger.deb