[rancid] Re: Leveraging rancid framework for unix

Aaron Smith smitha at byui.edu
Mon Jan 14 18:56:51 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 12:54 -0600, Sam Munzani wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Did anybody ever explored leveraging rancid frame work for unix login 
> and mass changes? I have a need to make edit some files on 200+ servers. 
> I was thinking to take F5 rancid files, hack it a bit(to do sudo instead 
> of cisco enable) and share with a team. However if somebody already 
> worked on this aspect, why reinvent the wheel? I can carry forward and 
> tune(if any required) and share with the team.

How about "for a in $LIST; do ssh $a $CMD; done"?  I think trying to use
rancid might be reinventing the wheel for something SSH might already be
capable of doing.

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@@ron Smith
IT Infrastructure
BYU Idaho


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