The Computer Society has a fairly small network of machines which provide a wide variety of services to its members and organizations at Purdue. Because of the relative complexity of the services offered, a group of volunteers compose the admin group which is responsible for the well-being and upkeep of the network.

The admin group uses cvs to maintain its configuration files. Currently, we are trying to focus on being able to make a change to our working directories, run a "make" command, and have the changes applied to the appropriate locations, and then commit the change to the repository. This methodology will allow the admin group to keep track of changes made by individual members so everyone can stay on top of things with minimal effort. It also reduces the number of times the same mistake would be made. See the cvs page for details on how that's implemented.