[rancid] How .cloginrc works and can i have separate .cloginrc files for each group

[Adrian Dimitrov]

Hello Heasley , team ,

I tried another thing, adjusting .cloginrc file with include <file>, and made a new file for each group/customer. This works as a charm, but still, it is not suitable for our environment, so I tried to add variable to custom rancid.conf file, but unfortunately it didn't work. I am still not skillful enough, can u please give me a simple example.

What I did was: 
1. Copied original rancid.conf and move it to Group1 directory, same thing for .cloginrc.
2. creating variable .cloginrc=Directory where the new file is, in this case directory of group1.

Still rancid is using the original .cloginrc file or if there is no such file I get an error. 

Best Regards,
Adrian Dimitrov
System Administrator


-----Original Message-----
From: heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2017 6:46 PM
To: Adrian Dimitrov <adrian.dimitrov at efellows.bg>
Cc: heasley <heas at shrubbery.net>; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] How .cloginrc works and can i have separate .cloginrc files for each group

Thu, Feb 16, 2017 at 04:36:46PM +0000, Adrian Dimitrov:
> Hello I get the point and went through the manuals, one last thing, I cannot find where in the rancid.conf file I can set which .cloginrc to use. 

just add a line; its just shell variables.

> One last thing I guess custom rancid.conf should be copied from the original one and customized.

customize it.