[rancid] Trailing exclamation mark on Cisco ASA serial numbers

[shouldbe q931]

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 1:24 PM, shouldbe q931 <shouldbeq931 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Hagen, Skye <skyeh at uidaho.edu> wrote:
>> This also occurs on FWSM configs. I'll bet it is in this section of rancid,
>> in the ShowVersion function.
>>
>>         /^serial number:\s+(.*)$/i &&
>>             ProcessHistory("COMMENTS","keysort","C1", "!Serial Number: $1")
>> &&
>>             next;
>>
>> Note: No newline is appended.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Skye Hagen
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 1/11/12 9:41 PM, "Dale Shaw" <dale.shaw+rancid-discuss at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I recently upgraded from RANCID 2.3.3 to 2.3.6.
>>>
>>> I noticed a bunch of diffs generated on our Cisco ASA firewalls after
>>> a recent collection.
>>>
>>> Example:
>>>
>>> dale at box:.../firewalls/configs$ cvs diff -D '1 day ago' par-fw01
>>> Index: par-fw01
>>> ===================================================================
>>> RCS file:
>>> /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/firewalls/configs/par-fw01,v
>>> retrieving revision 1.17
>>> retrieving revision 1.18
>>> diff -r1.17 -r1.18
>>> 8,9c8
>>> < !Serial Number: JMXXXXXXPQ
>>> < !
>>> ---
>>>> !Serial Number: JMXXXXXXPQ!
>>> dale at box:.../firewalls/configs$
>>>
>>> Note the exclamation mark ("!") appended to the serial number string.
>>> This does not appear in the command output when entered interactively.
>>>
>>> There seem to be a few possible culprits mentioned in the CHANGES file
>>> between 2.3.3 and 2.3.6.
>>>
>>> Our ASAs are running software release 7.0(x).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Dale
>>> _______________________________________________
>
> I'm running rancid 2.3.6 against ASA 8.2.5 and also seeing the trailing !

and on a PIX running 6.3.5