[rancid] change rancid.conf config setting once a week

heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Fri Dec 3 15:49:35 UTC 2021


Fri, Dec 03, 2021 at 08:13:22AM -0600, Chris Wopat:
> Is there any way to pass these config settings to this separate cron
> entry without modifying rancid.conf? The config file looks to be
> setting environment variables but I'm unsure if a local environment
> variable would override rancid.conf's settings.

if a separate group is used, a group-specific rancid.conf can be used
to over-ride the global config.  /pathto/<groupname>/rancid.conf,
next to the group's router.db.

it could be done in the environment that exececute rancid-run, but
other changes would be needed to facilitate that..



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