have system configuration files automagically saved on the usb key with dnotify and a script

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diff --git a/move/etc-monitorer.pl b/move/etc-monitorer.pl
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+use MDK::Common;
+
+sub outpend { my $f = shift; local *F; open F, ">>$f" or die "outpend in file $f failed: $!\n"; print F foreach @_ }
+sub logit { outpend "/var/log/etc-monitorer.log", sprintf("[%s] @_\n", chomp_(`date`)) }
+
+my $machine_ident = cat_('/var/lib/machine_ident');
+my $sysconf = "/home/.sysconf/$machine_ident";
+
+foreach (glob("$ARGV[0]/*")) {
+    next if $_ eq '/etc/sudoers';  #- /etc/sudoers can't be a link
+    if (-f && !-l) {
+        my $dest = "/home/.sysconf/$machine_ident$_";
+        mkdir_p(dirname($dest));  #- case of newly created directories
+        logit("restoring broken symlink $_ -> $dest");
+        system("mv $_ $dest");
+        symlink($dest, $_);
+    }
+}