[rancid] Configuring Rancid

[simon ben]

 Thanks guys and appreciate your early reply and sorry for the delay.I did start the rancid config and added my first cisco switchbut when I run clogin just to test using the below command I get logged into the router but it does not take me to eanble modebelow is the .cloginrc file-------------------add cyphertype 192.168.x.x aes256-ctr
add method * ssh
add user *  admin
add password 192.168.x.x loginpasswd enabepassword
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to test i use the below command
------------------------/usr/libexec/rancid/clogin -f .cloginrc 192.168.x.x
---------------------shows me the below message
--------------------[rancid at rancid ~]$ /usr/libexec/rancid/clogin -f .cloginrc 192.168.x.x
192.168.1.100
spawn ssh -c aes256-ctr -x -l admin 192.168.x.x

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appreciate your advice and help.
Thanks and Regards
simon






    On Wednesday, July 28, 2021, 10:34:04 PM GMT+3, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:  
 
 Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 01:49:01PM -0500, Chris Boyd:
> I was going to point to the ancient one I wrote for Daemon News, but it’s long gone apparently. This one looks pretty good.
> 
> https://uberbruco.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/rancid-on-freebsd/
> 
> Once installed, the configuration is pretty much the same, except maybe the email configuration.

rancid also comes with README and UPGRADING files that installation-related
instruction that you might find useful.  These are installed in the
datarootdir, typically <prefix>/share, but both prefix and datarootdir can
be altered by the installer, so YMMV.

> > On Jul 28, 2021, at 2:19 AM, simon ben <guy20034u at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > 
> > Dear All,
> > 
> > I have a plan to automate backup my  Cisco routers and switches and found Rancid would be ideal.
> > I have just installed Rancid using dnf on centos 8 64 Bit version
> > 
> > rancid-3.12-1.el8.x86_64
> > 
> > I checked on the net but was not able to find any good configuring docs
> > 
> > appreciate any advice or a good link which has complete documentation on how to configure rancid
> > 
> > appreciate and thanks 
> > 
> > 
> > regards
> > 
> > simon
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