[rancid] Re: rancid with Cisco ASA 5520 in Multiple Context Mode

john heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Tue Apr 21 03:52:49 UTC 2009


Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 09:37:22PM -0400, Carlo Finotti:
> So I have been trying to use rancid with "clogin" to simply backups up
> my firewall running in multiple context mode.  When I run the command
> below from a ubuntu command line it works with no issues but if I add
> it to a bash script it breaks, any suggestions?
> 
> sudo /usr/lib/rancid/bin/clogin -f /home/user/.cloginrc-firewall -c
> 'terminal pager 0; changeto context test; sh run; changeto context
> test1; changeto context test2; sh run; changeto context test3; exit'
> 10.2.2.1 > /home/user/backups/firewall-test.cfg
> 
> If anyone has any suggestions on creating a bash script with "clogin"
> I would appreciate the feedback because I have been racking my brain
> :-\  And I am by no means a linux guru so that is why I am struggling.
>  My goal is to back up (4) separate firewalls, (3) core switches and
> (6) routers while making it as simple as possible.

this is probably one of those boxes that gets confused by terminal types.
set TERM to something like vt100.


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