*Please* read the included README, so you understand the security aspects, and how it all works. For the impatient: Run etckeeper init cd /etc git status etckeeper commit 'msg' to get etckeeper started. Once you do that, the cronjob is in place and it'll do daily autocommits for you. To disable it, set AVOID_DAILY_AUTOCOMMITS=1 in /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf. There's also a yum plugin enabled that autocommits before and after each yum transaction. It can be disabled in /etc/yum/pluginconf.d/etckeeper.conf. If you ever want to deinstall etckeeper via yum, disable the plugin like this: "yum --disableplugin=etckeeper remove etckeeper".