[rancid] cloginrc order

Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com
Sun Apr 19 08:16:05 UTC 2015


On 18/04/2015 16:40, heasley wrote:
> Sat, Apr 18, 2015 at 01:52:52PM +0200, Alan McKinnon:
>> .cloginrc is read strictly in order so if you have "add user * joe" at
>> the very top, it will be used everywhere.
>>
>> Check the ordering of .loginrc as step one.
>>
>> Step 2 is to run clogin manually and check the output
> 
> Would it be useful if clogin et al with an option printed the cloginrc line
> that matched?



I think that would be very useful indeed.

I've had to rationalize very large .cloginrc files in the past, it
wasn't fun when I got the order wrong :-)



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Alan McKinnon
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