I've started working on a new tool that helps tracking changes to a system's configuration, especially when it is controlled by puppet[1]. The tool is called cft (pronounced 'sift') and is inspired by Gnome's Sabayon[2] in that it watches how an admin changes a system and spits out a puppet manifest based on its observations. Cft's website is http://cft.et.redhat.com/ , sources can be found in the mercurial repo at http://hg.et.redhat.com/hg/emd/applications/cft (the README and TODO files contain juicier details on how cft does what it does and possible future direction) For discussions, please use this list. Enjoy, David [1] http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet [2] http://www.gnome.org/~seth/blog/sabayon