[rancid] Re: how to ignore timestamps in config

[john heasley]

Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 11:24:32AM -0500, Konstantin Yudayev:
> Hello,
> 
> We have upgraded code on Cisco CRS router and looks like Cisco is now
> putting time stamp in front of every output (show ru, dir /all etc).
> RANCID believes that line belongs to config and has changed as a result
> I have a lot of "noise" in diff at every run. I have no problems adding
> regexp to exclude timestamps from the final output. Could Shrubbery guys
> advise on how to fix that problem (ignore timestamps in front of every
> output)? Here are some examples:

turn them off.  this must be the single most dysfunctional "feature" to
ever come out of cisco.

> 
> 
> 
> RP/0/RP1/CPU0:*********#show ru
> Fri Dec 11 16:17:01.115 UTC 
> Building configuration...
> !! IOS XR Configuration 
> !! Last configuration change at Thu Dec 10 18:16:46 2009 by 
> !
> service timestamps log datetime localtime msec show-timezone
> service timestamps debug datetime localtime msec show-timezone
> .........
> .....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> RP/0/RP1/CPU0:*********#dir /all disk0:
> Fri Dec 11 16:21:04.666 UTC 
> 
> Directory of disk0:
> 
> 2           drwx  32768       Thu Oct  8 09:37:25 2009  LOST.DIR
> 19493       dr-x  32768       Wed Dec  9 06:41:17 2009  bcm-cur
> .....
> ....
> 
> 
> 
> 
> As a result diff report is full of this stuff:
> 
> -!BootFlash: Thu Dec 10 10:01:37.984 UTC 
> 
> +!BootFlash: Fri Dec 11 10:01:32.729 UTC 
> 
> 
> Thank you
> 
>  - Konstantin Yudayev  @Verizon 

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