RANCID on Mac OS X (Darwin)

[john heasley]

Sat, Jun 14, 2003 at 03:27:45PM -0700, Mark Duling:
> Hello All,
> 
> Just thought I mention that I got RANCID running on OS X 10.2.4.  I am not
> very UNIX literate so I was tripped up by a Unix issue I wasn't familiar
> with (step 4 below).  I thought I'd post this and get it in the archives
> so other OS X users would be aware.  The basic steps I performed were:
> 

i dont understand why 2 or 4 were necessary.  the configure script should
have taken care of these steps.

> 1) Install the "batteries included" distribution of tcl/tk Aqua 8.4.2
> which included expect 5.38.  It is a binary image so it is a one click
> install familiar to OS X users.
> 
> 2) Modify the perl path in the install script to be correct for OS X.
> 
> 3) Install RANCID as described in the instructions and add the path to
> RANCID to your environment path.
> 
> 4) Modify the clogin (for Cisco) expect script's 1st line to be
> #!/usr/local/bin/expect
>       (Not doing that was what caused my trouble, I added the path to my
> shell.  I know, Unix newbies  :)
> 
> 5) Now you can follow the instructions on the RANCID site or follow the
> link to Chris Boyd's helpful instructions for BSD.
> 
> 
> Thanks to those who have made this very useful utility.
> 
> Mark