SLACK (Sysadmins' Lazy Auto-Configuration Kit) is a configuration management system designed to appeal to lazy system administrators. It's an evolution from the fairly common practice of putting files in some central directory. It's descended from an earlier system called "subsets", and uses a multi-stage rsync to fix some of the problems in that system. License: GNU General Public License (GPL) Changes:
slack.conf is now installed without the execute bit. A bunch of changes from the Debian patch were merged in, with a few changes to preserve permissions on /var/lib/slack and /var/cache/slack and a few changes to the way debs are built. The --rsh option is now propagated to backends, so the option actually works.

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