[rancid] mtrancid - output exclusion?

[heasley]

Sat, May 27, 2017 at 10:45:15PM +0000, Tim Warnock:
> As a FYI :- if this is really happening you might want to fix the underlying issue. And yes - there is an issue.
> 
> Your deadline for re-licence expired in April which is why its retrying all the time...

should rancid instead just drop the timestamp?  ie: keep the nagging, but
to once/day.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rancid-discuss [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Alexander Griesser
> Sent: Saturday, 27 May 2017 12:39 AM
> To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: [rancid] mtrancid - output exclusion?
> 
> Hi,
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> is it possible to exclude some output in mtrancid? We're using rancid to monitor some of those newer Mikrotik CHR appliances and they seem to have some kind of expiring subscription-based license which automatically renews every hour.
> 
> The problem is, that the next renewal attempt is being shown in the output and therefore gets recognized as a change every hour.
> 
> This is what those mails look like:
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>   #
> 
>   # system-id: i3U6SB8z2vE
> 
>   # level: p-unlimited
> 
>   # limited-upgrades: yes
> 
> - # next-renewal-at: may/26/2017 13:56:33
> 
> + # next-renewal-at: may/26/2017 14:56:43
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>   # deadline-at: apr/09/2017 20:59:59
> 
>   #
> 
>   #
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> Thanks,
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> Alexander Griesser
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> Head of Systems Operations
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