Perhaps not quite perlish enough, but if not...

My previous job was with a fairly small company, and we did all our development on our running production box. I'm now working for a large company where we actually have a development/test box and a production box. What I'm interested in is a utility to compare files on the development box to those on the production box. This would have to include perl modules, cgi scripts, html, etc.

Right now, we just FTP files over from the development box when we're through with testing. There has to be a better way... (Unfortunately, NFS is out of the question.) I'm leaning towards writing my own system, but I'd hate to reinvent the wheel... Has anyone had any experience with a system like this?

In reply to Syncing a development and production server... by YoungPups

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