[rancid] archive cisco command and rancid

[Jethro R Binks]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2015, rdrake wrote:

> If you were to use the ftp config you would need to heavily modify the
> rancid script.  It would need to detect that the file was newer than
> what was saved in CVS, then grab the comments out of the existing CVS
> file, combine that with the "sh run" from the ftp.   This would fake
> things out and the comments would be wrong on some devices and that
> would be .. not ideal.

On this point, I recommend original poster Google for "wrancid" and 
"wraprancid".  But neither developed for rancid 3.x so far.  They allow 
you to run ar arbitrary command to fetch a config by whatever means, which 
can then be processed.

Jethro.

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