Default configuration files for my user environment.
Over the years, every sysadmin (and software developer, user, etc.)
learns / creates / borrows bunches of
little tweaks and hacks for their dotfiles: .profile and .bashrc
and so on and so forth. Then there are other little tweaks and hacks
in little scripts that are very useful to have around.
Then, you log in to a new machine, or you change jobs, or have some change in environment, and now you don't have them any more. Of course, you can just make a copy of .profile to the new machine, but oh, crap ... your base machine is OS/X and you need them for Linux ... or, you've installed some package on your base machine that twiddled your .profile and didn't do it nicely, etc.
So, this repository will contain "generic" startup dotfiles for various tools that I use. They will be sanitized [hopefully] to avoid revealing any personal information that should not be in GitHub. Maybe they will be useful to other sysadmins as well.
Doing a search for "dotfiles" on GitHub, I find 67,561 repositories, some that include refined installation scripts and other tools.
Eventually, this might turn into a beautifully crafted, elegant set of template files that embodies a convention to include local modifications or augmentations, etc. I'm not there yet. Right now I am just trying to tidy up my own mess.
Feel free to browse, clone, fork, copy what you find useful. No warranty, bla bla bla ... if you find something is useful, or broken, drop me a line: [rbj@spotch.com]
emacs : Emacs startup and Elisp files
git : Git global configuration
linux : Startup files specific to Linux
osx : Startup files specific to OS/X (Mac OS)