integration of security enhancement patch

[Andrew Fort]

On 7/01/2004 3:03 PM, john heasley wrote:

>2) what i'd like to add for rancid 3.0 (or whatever) are boiler-plate device
>   types.  for example, type "cisco" runs commands x, y, & z.  but, a user
>   can define their own type, cisco-startup which might run x, y, z, & show
>   startup-config.  not quite sure how to do that yet.
>  
>

Thinking out loud here, but...
How about merging the concept covered in 'rancid-fe' with this, so you 
have a device type which nominates a given *rancid script to execute and 
also a file which has the commands for that script to run, along with 
the function names to parse them.  The parsers commands are split out 
into a perl module or similar, with examples on how to write your own 
and what inputs to expect and outputs to provide.

-afort