[rancid] Re: Got Rancid working, now what?

[Joseph Jackson]

Cool I didn't know that.  I'm not really all that great on CVS stuff.  

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> [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of 
> john heasley
> Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 12:15 PM
> To: Todd Heide
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: [rancid] Re: Got Rancid working, now what?
> 
> Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 02:06:10PM -0500, Todd Heide:
> > OH, so that is why I only saw one. Hmm, that kinda defeats 
> the purpose 
> > for me. Place I worked for before used a similar system that made 
> > versions of the configurations in case someone fat fingered 
> something, 
> > we could rollback, I was looking to do that with Rancid.
> 
> you can do that.  every config collected is saved in CVS.  
> you can ANY one of them back with cvs.  roughly:
> 	cvs -d ~rancid/CVS co -r1.1 -p group/configs/hostname > 
> hostname.rev1.1
> 
> also go find cvsweb and install it.
> 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Todd Heide
> > 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Joseph Jackson [mailto:JJackson at aninetworks.com]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 1:53 PM
> > To: Todd Heide; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: RE: [rancid] Got Rancid working, now what?
> > 
> > You set the time to poll based on a cron job.  Once RANCID see's a 
> > change it applies it to CVS and overwrights the old config. 
>  I don't 
> > know where to change that but it does store the complete configs in 
> > "/usr/local/rancid/var/routers/configs/"  So you could always have 
> > something copy them out to another location after the RANCID run 
> > happens.
> > 
> > 
> > Joseph
> >  
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net
> > > [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Todd 
> > > Heide
> > > Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 11:45 AM
> > > To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > > Subject: [rancid] Got Rancid working, now what?
> > > 
> > > OK, I was able to do a test on a few devices 
> successfully, but had 
> > > to disable the sendmail lines in the config. The basic 
> config that 
> > > comes with the install of Rancid, does it have default 
> settings on 
> > > how long between polls, how many diffs to save, etc? Is there a 
> > > better example for Cisco only that I can study? I had 
> tested diff by 
> > > changing a line on one router, and saw that it had picked 
> up on it, 
> > > but I did not see two copies in CVS, did I do something 
> wrong, or am 
> > > I looking in the wrong place?
> > > 
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