automating non-config actions?

[Avram Dorfman]

Yup. I think I'll steal the group code, and work in par. I was thinking
about building this back into control_rancid & do_diffs, but it will
probably be quicker just to make a new script.

Thanks,
-Avram

> -----Original Message-----
> From: john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net]
> Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2002 5:34 PM
> To: Avram Dorfman
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: automating non-config actions?
> 
> 
> Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 05:06:33PM -0500, Andrew Partan:
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2002 at 01:05:50PM -0800, Avram Dorfman wrote:
> > > Has anyone thought about modifying rancid to make it a batch
> > > utility for executing arbitrary actions on lots of routers?
> > 
> > Look at clogin - its already does a lot of what you want.
> > 	--asp
> 
> btw, clogin is cisco (more or less) specific at this point.  a simple
> shell script would whack that for you. eg:
> 
> cd /usr/local/rancid
> for router in `cat */router.db`
> do
>     oldFS=$IFS
>     IFS=:
>     set $router
>     IFS=$oldFS
> 
>     if [ "$3" == "up" ] ; then
> 	if [ "$2" != "juniper"] ; then
> 	    jlogin -s jnx_script $1
> 	else
> 	    clogin -s cisco_script $1
> 	fi
>     fi
> done
>