[rancid] Re: Setting $OLDTIME per RANCID group or device

[john heasley]

Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 07:24:10PM -0600, Justin Shore:
> I have a need to define $OLDTIME (or disabling the feature) per group or 
> individual device.  I have a number of unreliable remote sites (owner 
> residences, roving demo kits, etc) that are only up occasionally.  I'd 
> like to not get the alerts from RANCID for just those particular device 
> or the RANCID group that the devices belong to.  Is there an easy way to 
> do this?  If it helps, I poll individual groups with rancid-run rather 
> than simply running rancid-run with no arguments.  ie,
> 
> 0 */1 * * * rancid-run abc
> 0 */1 * * * rancid-run def
> 0 */1 * * * rancid-run remote
> 
> Can I simply define $OLDTIME on the CLI in my crontab on the specific 
> crontab entries that need to be changed and then let the default OLDTIME 
> in the config file take over to all the other entries?

yes, if you change the definition in rancid.conf, if you use it, to
something more like

	OLDTIME=${OLDTIME:-whatevervalueyouuse}