[rancid] Re: cisco syslog diff

[Traiano Welcome]

john heasley wrote:
> Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 06:12:02PM +0200, Traiano Welcome:
>   
>> Hi
>>
>> I have the same problem, after an IOS upgrade on a 7609 router, 
>> resulting in annoying 5-minutely diff mails, so I made the following 
>> adjustment to the ShowLash() subroutine in bin/rancid:
>>     
>
> isnt there some config knob that is causing the file to be created in
> the first place?
>
>   


I've been trying to find out if this might be the case. My suspicion is 
that this should be fixed on the cisco IOS, but I have not yet been able 
to pinpoint the correct knob ...


>> ---
>> while (<INPUT>) {
>> tr/\015//d;
>> last if (/^$prompt/);
>> ----> last if (/Flash/);
>> next if (/^(\s*|\s*$cmd\s*)$/);
>> return(1) if ($type =~ /^(12[40]|7)/);
>> return(-1) if (/command authorization failed/i);
>> return(1) if /^\s*\^\s*$/;
>> return(1) if /(Invalid input detected|Type help or )/;
>> # the pager can not be disabled per-session on the PIX
>> s/^<-+ More -+>\s*//;
>> /\s+vlan\.dat$/ && next;
>> ProcessHistory("FLASH","","","!Flash: $_");
>> }
>> ---
>>
>> Is this the correct way to do this? Will this result in a loss of 
>> information that I might need to determine IOS version changes between 
>> upgrades?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Traiano
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Lance Vermilion wrote:
>>     
>>> That will just remove it from the Diff portion it will not remove it 
>>> from printing it. If you find the sub routine that processes the dir 
>>> command you will see there is a line that will say Flash:.
>>>
>>> -Lance
>>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:00 AM, Smirnoff Alexander 
>>> <asmirnoff at office.beeline.ru <mailto:asmirnoff at office.beeline.ru>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     Ok, I am just add | grep -v "Flash:" before >$TMP.diff in
>>>     control_rancid and waiting for results ;)
>>>
>>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>     *From:* lavermil at gheek.net <mailto:lavermil at gheek.net>
>>>     [mailto:lavermil at gheek.net <mailto:lavermil at gheek.net>] *On Behalf
>>>     Of *Lance Vermilion
>>>     *Sent:* Wednesday, August 12, 2009 12:34 AM
>>>
>>>
>>>     *To:* Smirnoff Alexander
>>>     *Cc:* rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
>>>     <mailto:rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
>>>     *Subject:* Re: [rancid] cisco syslog diff
>>>
>>>     You will need to look for the sub routine that has Flash in it. Do
>>>     a search for that in the appropriate rancid file.
>>>
>>>     -Lance
>>>
>>>     On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Smirnoff Alexander
>>>     <asmirnoff at office.beeline.ru <mailto:asmirnoff at office.beeline.ru>>
>>>     wrote:
>>>
>>>     dir | e syslog ? it is very simple way, but I need more ;)
>>>
>>>     how I can just disable all lines like ?!Flash: ? from mail diff
>>>     output , but this lines can be stored in CVS config changes?
>>>
>>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>     *From:* lavermil at gheek.net <mailto:lavermil at gheek.net>
>>>     [mailto:lavermil at gheek.net <mailto:lavermil at gheek.net>] *On Behalf
>>>     Of *Lance Vermilion
>>>     *Sent:* Thursday, August 21, 2008 10:13 PM
>>>
>>>
>>>     *To:* Smirnoff Alexander
>>>     *Cc:* rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
>>>     <mailto:rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
>>>     *Subject:* Re: [rancid] cisco syslog diff
>>>
>>>     the other option is to write some custom pieces to not include or
>>>     modify the command for dir to exclude things you don't want to
>>>     include.
>>>
>>>     dir | e syslog
>>>
>>>     something like that. You may have to escape the |, you will need
>>>     to mess with it a little.
>>>
>>>     On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Smirnoff Alexander
>>>     <asmirnoff at gldn.net <mailto:asmirnoff at gldn.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     If I remove this command (dir) I lost other important changer ,
>>>     like ios change. I mean about more intellectual rancid
>>>     acknowledges behavior , then minor changes like syslog grow not
>>>     cause email's.
>>>
>>>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>>     *From:* lavermil at gheek.net <mailto:lavermil at gheek.net>
>>>     [mailto:lavermil at gheek.net <mailto:lavermil at gheek.net>] *On Behalf
>>>     Of *Lance Vermilion
>>>     *Sent:* Wednesday, August 20, 2008 12:11 AM
>>>     *To:* Smirnoff Alexander
>>>     *Cc:* rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
>>>     <mailto:rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
>>>     *Subject:* Re: [rancid] cisco syslog diff
>>>
>>>     remove that command from what is checked in the rancid file under
>>>     <rancid home>/bin/
>>>
>>>     2008/8/19 Smirnoff Alexander <asmirnoff at gldn.net
>>>     <mailto:asmirnoff at gldn.net>>
>>>
>>>     Hello!
>>>
>>>     How I can disable alerts on changing like this:
>>>
>>>     Index: configs/172.17.200.64 <http://172.17.200.64>
>>>
>>>     ===================================================================
>>>
>>>     retrieving revision 1.12
>>>
>>>     diff -U 4 -r1.12 172.17.200.64 <http://172.17.200.64>
>>>
>>>     @@ -41,10 +41,10 @@
>>>
>>>     !Flash: 7 drwx 4032 Feb 02 2005 05:17:01 +03:00 html
>>>
>>>     !Flash: 21 -rwx 109 Feb 02 2005 05:09:06 +03:00 info
>>>
>>>     !Flash: 22 -rwx 109 Feb 02 2005 05:18:09 +03:00 info.ver
>>>
>>>     !Flash: 362 -rwx 6269 Aug 18 2008 10:50:57 +04:00 config.text
>>>
>>>     - !Flash: 363 -rwx 662228 Aug 19 2008 10:04:07 +04:00 syslog
>>>
>>>     - !Flash: 7741440 bytes total (2416640 bytes free)
>>>
>>>     + !Flash: 363 -rwx 662626 Aug 19 2008 11:48:59 +04:00 syslog
>>>
>>>     + !Flash: 7741440 bytes total (2416128 bytes free)
>>>
>>>     !
>>>
>>>     !Flash: nvram: Directory of nvram:/
>>>
>>>     !Flash: nvram: 26 -rw- 6269 <no date> startup-config
>>>
>>>     !Flash: nvram: 27 ---- 26 <no date> private-config
>>>
>>>     When only syslog file size change?
>>>
>>>     -- 
>>>     Regards,
>>>     Alexandr Smirnov
>>>