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I was going to point to the ancient one I wrote for Daemon News, but it’s long gone apparently. This one looks pretty good.

https://uberbruco.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/rancid-on-freebsd/

Once installed, the configuration is pretty much the same, except maybe the email configuration.

> On Jul 28, 2021, at 2:19 AM, simon ben <guy20034u@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have a plan to automate backup my Cisco routers and switches and found Rancid would be ideal.
> I have just installed Rancid using dnf on centos 8 64 Bit version
>
> rancid-3.12-1.el8.x86_64
>
> I checked on the net but was not able to find any good configuring docs
>
> appreciate any advice or a good link which has complete documentation on how to configure rancid
>
> appreciate and thanks
>
>
> regards
>
> simon
> _______________________________________________
> Rancid-discuss mailing list
> Rancid-discuss@www.shrubbery.net
> https://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo/rancid-discuss

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On 28 Jul 2021, at 10:19 EAT, simon ben wrote:

> I checked on the net but was not able to find any good configuring
> docs
> appreciate any advice or a good link which has complete documentation
> on how to configure rancid
> appreciate and thanks

The Network Startup Resource Center currently has a lab that walks
participants through installing and getting rancid running as part of a
“network monitoring and management” course. Base operating system
will be Ubuntu rather than RedHat/CentOS but as Chris mentioned the
configuration/running bits are the same across operating systems.

You can find the lab at
<https://nsrc.org/activities/agendas/en/nmm-5-days/netmgmt/en/rancid/exercises-rancid.html>
and the rest of the course at
<https://nsrc.org/activities/agendas/en/nmm-5-days/>.

The course does assume you have access to a lab layout similar to what
is listed in the opening presentations but the rancid bit should be easy
to tune to your environment.

Disclaimer: I do work with the NSRC.

--
patrick

Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 01:49:01PM -0500, Chris Boyd:
> I was going to point to the ancient one I wrote for Daemon News, but it’s long gone apparently. This one looks pretty good.
>
> https://uberbruco.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/rancid-on-freebsd/
>
> Once installed, the configuration is pretty much the same, except maybe the email configuration.

rancid also comes with README and UPGRADING files that installation-related
instruction that you might find useful. These are installed in the
datarootdir, typically <prefix>/share, but both prefix and datarootdir can
be altered by the installer, so YMMV.

> > On Jul 28, 2021, at 2:19 AM, simon ben <guy20034u@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I have a plan to automate backup my Cisco routers and switches and found Rancid would be ideal.
> > I have just installed Rancid using dnf on centos 8 64 Bit version
> >
> > rancid-3.12-1.el8.x86_64
> >
> > I checked on the net but was not able to find any good configuring docs
> >
> > appreciate any advice or a good link which has complete documentation on how to configure rancid
> >
> > appreciate and thanks
> >
> >
> > regards
> >
> > simon
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rancid-discuss mailing list
> > Rancid-discuss@www.shrubbery.net
> > https://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo/rancid-discuss
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rancid-discuss mailing list
> Rancid-discuss@www.shrubbery.net
> https://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo/rancid-discuss

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> it’s long gone apparently

Well, sorta...
there's page 20 here:
http://gwdu111.gwdg.de/misc/dnews/dnews_0302.pdf



weylin






?-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 2:49 PM
To: "rancid-discuss@www.shrubbery.net" <rancid-discuss@sea.shrubbery.net>
Subject: Re: [rancid] Configuring Rancid

I was going to point to the ancient one I wrote for Daemon News, but it’s long gone apparently. This one looks pretty good.

https://uberbruco.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/rancid-on-freebsd/

Once installed, the configuration is pretty much the same, except maybe the email configuration.

> On Jul 28, 2021, at 2:19 AM, simon ben <guy20034u@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> I have a plan to automate backup my Cisco routers and switches and found Rancid would be ideal.
> I have just installed Rancid using dnf on centos 8 64 Bit version
>
> rancid-3.12-1.el8.x86_64
>
> I checked on the net but was not able to find any good configuring docs
>
> appreciate any advice or a good link which has complete documentation on how to configure rancid
>
> appreciate and thanks
>
>
> regards
>
> simon
> _______________________________________________
> Rancid-discuss mailing list
> Rancid-discuss@www.shrubbery.net
> https://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo/rancid-discuss



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It was still there about a year ago, Wayback machine for the win:

https://web.archive.org/web/20200805155647/https://uberbruco.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/rancid-on-freebsd/


On Sun, 1 Aug 2021, Piegorsch, Weylin William wrote:

> > it’s long gone apparently
>
> Well, sorta...
> there's page 20 here:
> http://gwdu111.gwdg.de/misc/dnews/dnews_0302.pdf
>
>
>
> weylin
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ?-----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Boyd <cboyd@gizmopartners.com>
> Date: Wednesday, July 28, 2021 at 2:49 PM
> To: "rancid-discuss@www.shrubbery.net" <rancid-discuss@sea.shrubbery.net>
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Configuring Rancid
>
> I was going to point to the ancient one I wrote for Daemon News, but it’s long gone apparently. This one looks pretty good.
>
> https://uberbruco.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/rancid-on-freebsd/
>
> Once installed, the configuration is pretty much the same, except maybe the email configuration.
>
> > On Jul 28, 2021, at 2:19 AM, simon ben <guy20034u@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I have a plan to automate backup my Cisco routers and switches and found Rancid would be ideal.
> > I have just installed Rancid using dnf on centos 8 64 Bit version
> >
> > rancid-3.12-1.el8.x86_64
> >
> > I checked on the net but was not able to find any good configuring docs
> >
> > appreciate any advice or a good link which has complete documentation on how to configure rancid
> >
> > appreciate and thanks
> >
> >
> > regards
> >
> > simon
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rancid-discuss mailing list
> > Rancid-discuss@www.shrubbery.net
> > https://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo/rancid-discuss
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rancid-discuss mailing list
> Rancid-discuss@www.shrubbery.net
> https://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo/rancid-discuss
>

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Thanks guys and appreciate your early reply and sorry for the delay.I did start the rancid config and added my first cisco switchbut when I run clogin just to test using the below command I get logged into the router but it does not take me to eanble modebelow is the .cloginrc file-------------------add cyphertype 192.168.x.x aes256-ctr
add method * ssh
add user *  admin
add password 192.168.x.x loginpasswd enabepassword
---------------------
to test i use the below command
------------------------/usr/libexec/rancid/clogin -f .cloginrc 192.168.x.x
---------------------shows me the below message
--------------------[rancid@rancid ~]$ /usr/libexec/rancid/clogin -f .cloginrc 192.168.x.x
192.168.1.100
spawn ssh -c aes256-ctr -x -l admin 192.168.x.x

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appreciate your advice and help.
Thanks and Regards
simon






On Wednesday, July 28, 2021, 10:34:04 PM GMT+3, heasley <heas@shrubbery.net> wrote:

Wed, Jul 28, 2021 at 01:49:01PM -0500, Chris Boyd:
> I was going to point to the ancient one I wrote for Daemon News, but it’s long gone apparently. This one looks pretty good.
>
> https://uberbruco.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/rancid-on-freebsd/
>
> Once installed, the configuration is pretty much the same, except maybe the email configuration.

rancid also comes with README and UPGRADING files that installation-related
instruction that you might find useful.  These are installed in the
datarootdir, typically <prefix>/share, but both prefix and datarootdir can
be altered by the installer, so YMMV.

> > On Jul 28, 2021, at 2:19 AM, simon ben <guy20034u@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > Dear All,
> >
> > I have a plan to automate backup my  Cisco routers and switches and found Rancid would be ideal.
> > I have just installed Rancid using dnf on centos 8 64 Bit version
> >
> > rancid-3.12-1.el8.x86_64
> >
> > I checked on the net but was not able to find any good configuring docs
> >
> > appreciate any advice or a good link which has complete documentation on how to configure rancid
> >
> > appreciate and thanks
> >
> >
> > regards
> >
> > simon
> > _______________________________________________
> > Rancid-discuss mailing list
> > Rancid-discuss@www.shrubbery.net
> > https://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo/rancid-discuss
>
> _______________________________________________
> Rancid-discuss mailing list
> Rancid-discuss@www.shrubbery.net
> https://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo/rancid-discuss

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