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 you can add a regex match to discard Time:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="#1f497d" face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:&quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;color:#1F497D">Add a new one like this:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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 rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net]
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">On Behalf Of </span></b>Pete Boynton<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, October 17, 2012 9:50 AM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">To:</span></b> rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net<br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject:</span></b> [rancid] RANCID pulls hourly diff off NEXUS 5500 despite no changes<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><font size="3" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Hello,<br>
<br>
We are running version of 2.3.8 of RANCID. The problem we are having is that every hour RANCID detects a change in the config and so it posts a new page even though no chance has occurred. It detects the line:<br>
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!Time: Wed Oct 17 06:00:06 2012<br>
<br>
<br>
has changed from the hour before, so I guess technically a change has occurred and RANCID is doing what it was designed to do. However we are getting spammed with versions that really don't tell us when an important change has been made. This is only a problem
 on the NEXUS switches. Everything else works fine.<br>
<br>
Question:<br>
<br>
1. Is there a way to tell RANCID to ignore the line that begins with !Time?<br>
<br>
Thanks for any help you can give<br>
<br>
Pedro <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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