[rancid] Re: ASA line indentation

john heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Mon Aug 13 17:57:16 UTC 2007


Mon, Aug 13, 2007 at 10:39:34AM -0700, Lance:
> David,
> 
> Funky I have no such issue here. try doing a cat -vet on your file and
> then look back 1 revision and pipe it to cat -vet too.

agreed.  either the box is doing this, or this screen manipulation junk
or some botch with handling the box's pager.  does the pager get disabled
on this platform?

> If you use CVS, you can get the previous revision like so. Assuming you
> are using the defaults the CVS would be in the RANCID home dir and under
> var/CVS. :)
> 
> cvs diff -r $previous-revision -r $current-revision $router-switch
> 
> -Lance
> 
> 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [rancid]  ASA line indentation
> > From: "David Croft" <david at infotrek.co.uk>
> > Date: Mon, August 13, 2007 7:19 am
> > To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > 
> > I have a weird problem with the Cisco ASA 5540. For some reason, the
> > indentation of various lines of the config keeps changing. This only
> > seems to happen when I actually change the config - I change one line
> > in the config, and then a load of extra bogus diffs appear that are
> > just indentation changes.
> > 
> > For example, in the config below, the only genuine change I made was
> > to add dns-guard, but lots of extra diffs appear.
> > 
> > It doesn't cause any extra mails to be sent, since it does only happen
> > when I do change something, but it does show a load of spurious diffs.
> > 
> > Has anyone else found this and is there a way to work around this in
> > rancid - for example by removing all leading spaces from every line
> > before storing it in CVS?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > 
> > Index: configs/fw01-active.x.x.net.uk
> > ===================================================================
> > retrieving revision 1.87
> > diff -u -4 -r1.87 fw01-active.x.x.net.uk
> > @@ -67,8 +67,9 @@
> >  hostname fw01
> >  domain-name x.x.net.uk
> >  enable password x encrypted
> >  names
> > + dns-guard
> >  !
> >  interface GigabitEthernet0/0
> >   description to core routers via vlan 5 on distribution switches
> >   speed 1000
> > @@ -82,10 +83,10 @@
> >   description to distribution switches via vlan 6
> >   speed 1000
> >   duplex full
> >   nameif inside
> > -  security-level 50
> > - ip address x 255.255.255.248 standby x
> > + security-level 50
> > +  ip address x 255.255.255.248 standby x
> >   ospf cost 10
> >  !
> >  interface GigabitEthernet0/2
> >   speed 1000
> > @@ -105,10 +106,10 @@
> >  !
> >  interface Management0/0
> >   speed 100
> >   duplex full
> > -  nameif management
> > - security-level 100
> > + nameif management
> > +  security-level 100
> >   ip address 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 standby 192.168.0.199
> >   ospf cost 10
> >   ospf network point-to-point non-broadcast
> >   management-only
> > @@ -128,10 +129,10 @@
> >   description to noc 3560
> >   speed 1000
> >   duplex full
> >   nameif inside-noc
> > -  security-level 100
> > - no ip address
> > + security-level 100
> > +  no ip address
> >  !
> >  interface GigabitEthernet1/3
> >   shutdown
> >   no nameif
> > @@ -221,9 +222,9 @@
> >   area 0
> >   log-adj-changes
> >  !
> >  router eigrp 1
> > - no auto-summary
> > +  no auto-summary
> >   neighbor x interface inside
> >   neighbor x interface inside
> >   network x 255.255.255.248
> >  !
> > @@ -266,10 +267,10 @@
> >  sysopt noproxyarp inside-noc
> >  sla monitor 1
> >   type echo protocol ipIcmpEcho x interface outside
> >   timeout 2000
> > -  threshold 4000
> > - frequency 5
> > + threshold 4000
> > +  frequency 5
> >  sla monitor schedule 1 life forever start-time now
> >  sla monitor 2
> >   type echo protocol ipIcmpEcho x interface outside
> >   timeout 2000
> > @@ -357,6 +358,6 @@
> >  tunnel-group Remote-Staff ipsec-attributes
> >   pre-shared-key *
> >  smtp-server x x
> >  prompt hostname context
> > - Cryptochecksum:9ada600f57fb6994832ba5bcef07562b
> > + Cryptochecksum:db711fa252d3a044ca708fc6099a8af2
> >  : end
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