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Ed Ravin | 2 Apr 2007 04:43
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[rancid] RANCID, the next generation?

Dear RANCID gang:

I'd like to announce that thanks to my public-sprited employer and
a sacrifice of much of my spare time, I've been able to put RANCID
through a complete rewrite.

The new version supports all of the previous RANCID devices, as
well as many new ones, and everything has been rewritten to be
modular, to use shared script libraries, with re-entrancy,
multi-threading, and a new, well-organized model that allows
for easy extension and customization.

User-controlled configuration now extends to device definitions,
connection method definitions, the commands to run on a router, and
what to do with each section of the router's config file (sorting,
censoring out passwords, etc.).  It's so user-configurable that I've
been able to implement nearly every patch and feature request discussed
on this list in the past three years using just the new configuration
settings.

I would have announced it earlier this month, but I had trouble
coming up with a new acronym.  How do you follow an act like RANCID,
a mature, reliable, high quality, full featured software package with
a catchy and appealing name that's also an unbeatable acronym?

So please welcome PUTRID - the Perl/Unix/TCL Router Information
Database.  It's not any better than RANCID -- but it is stronger,
even more mature (more ripe?), and ranks up there with the best of them
in the spirit of open-sourced projects.
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Mark Boolootian | 2 Apr 2007 04:58
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[rancid] Re: RANCID, the next generation?


> So please welcome PUTRID - the Perl/Unix/TCL Router Information
> Database.  It's not any better than RANCID -- but it is stronger,
> even more mature (more ripe?), and ranks up there with the best of them
> in the spirit of open-sourced projects.

This is fantastic.  It even found a couple of configuration optimizations
for our core fastpaths, and the backbone is operating more smoothly than ever.

thanks Ed
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Lance | 2 Apr 2007 05:26

[rancid] Re: RANCID, the next generation?

Ed,

Great news. I will have to see how it works. I will download it tomorrow
and check it out. Are you going to start a different mailing list etc?

-Lance

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [rancid]  RANCID, the next generation?
> From: Ed Ravin <eravin <at> panix.com>
> Date: Sun, April 01, 2007 7:43 pm
> To: rancid-discuss <at> shrubbery.net
> 
> Dear RANCID gang:
> 
> I'd like to announce that thanks to my public-sprited employer and
> a sacrifice of much of my spare time, I've been able to put RANCID
> through a complete rewrite.
> 
> The new version supports all of the previous RANCID devices, as
> well as many new ones, and everything has been rewritten to be
> modular, to use shared script libraries, with re-entrancy,
> multi-threading, and a new, well-organized model that allows
> for easy extension and customization.
> 
> User-controlled configuration now extends to device definitions,
> connection method definitions, the commands to run on a router, and
> what to do with each section of the router's config file (sorting,
> censoring out passwords, etc.).  It's so user-configurable that I've
> been able to implement nearly every patch and feature request discussed
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Lance | 2 Apr 2007 05:29

[rancid] Re: RANCID, the next generation?

Ed,

I get a 404 error when checking "putrid.sf.net". What gives?

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [rancid]  RANCID, the next generation?
> From: Ed Ravin <eravin <at> panix.com>
> Date: Sun, April 01, 2007 7:43 pm
> To: rancid-discuss <at> shrubbery.net
> 
> Dear RANCID gang:
> 
> I'd like to announce that thanks to my public-sprited employer and
> a sacrifice of much of my spare time, I've been able to put RANCID
> through a complete rewrite.
> 
> The new version supports all of the previous RANCID devices, as
> well as many new ones, and everything has been rewritten to be
> modular, to use shared script libraries, with re-entrancy,
> multi-threading, and a new, well-organized model that allows
> for easy extension and customization.
> 
> User-controlled configuration now extends to device definitions,
> connection method definitions, the commands to run on a router, and
> what to do with each section of the router's config file (sorting,
> censoring out passwords, etc.).  It's so user-configurable that I've
> been able to implement nearly every patch and feature request discussed
> on this list in the past three years using just the new configuration
> settings.
>
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Austin Schutz | 2 Apr 2007 05:35

[rancid] Re: [PATCH] Use Git to store configs

On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 09:17:02PM -0500, Jeffrey C. Ollie wrote:
> Yeah, that too bad that flock isn't widely available, since it works
> perfectly for what I needed.  Does your script work in a similar method?
> 

	It will fork and lock a specified file, returning a pid. When your
shell (or perl, I suppose) scripts wants to release the lock it kills
the specified pid, causing the lock to be released. I have tested it on 
Linux, Solaris, and AIX.

	If you want it please contact me off list (unless other people are
interested too).

	Austin
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Randy Bush | 2 Apr 2007 06:32

[rancid] Re: RANCID, the next generation?

> I get a 404 error when checking "putrid.sf.net". What gives?
>> Date: Sun, April 01, 2007 7:43 pm

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Shekhar Basnet | 2 Apr 2007 08:06
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[rancid] Re: RANCID, the next generation?

Same here too. 

Shekhar Basnet.

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 09:14, Lance wrote:
> Ed,
> 
> I get a 404 error when checking "putrid.sf.net". What gives?
> 
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [rancid]  RANCID, the next generation?
> > From: Ed Ravin <eravin <at> panix.com>
> > Date: Sun, April 01, 2007 7:43 pm
> > To: rancid-discuss <at> shrubbery.net
> > 
> > Dear RANCID gang:
> > 
> > I'd like to announce that thanks to my public-sprited employer and
> > a sacrifice of much of my spare time, I've been able to put RANCID
> > through a complete rewrite.

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Joshua Dibble | 2 Apr 2007 08:15

[rancid] Re: RANCID, the next generation?

Maybe just a really good April fools joke?

Shekhar Basnet wrote:
> Same here too. 
> 
> Shekhar Basnet.
> 
> On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 09:14, Lance wrote:
>> Ed,
>>
>> I get a 404 error when checking "putrid.sf.net". What gives?
>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: [rancid]  RANCID, the next generation?
>>> From: Ed Ravin <eravin <at> panix.com>
>>> Date: Sun, April 01, 2007 7:43 pm
>>> To: rancid-discuss <at> shrubbery.net
>>>
>>> Dear RANCID gang:
>>>
>>> I'd like to announce that thanks to my public-sprited employer and
>>> a sacrifice of much of my spare time, I've been able to put RANCID
>>> through a complete rewrite.
> 
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Shekhar Basnet | 2 Apr 2007 08:36
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[rancid] Re: RANCID, the next generation?

Good one...
:-)

s

On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 12:00, Joshua Dibble wrote:
> Maybe just a really good April fools joke?
> 
> Shekhar Basnet wrote:
> > Same here too. 
> > 
> > Shekhar Basnet.
> > 
> > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 09:14, Lance wrote:
> >> Ed,
> >>
> >> I get a 404 error when checking "putrid.sf.net". What gives?
> >>
> >>> -------- Original Message --------
> >>> Subject: [rancid]  RANCID, the next generation?
> >>> From: Ed Ravin <eravin <at> panix.com>
> >>> Date: Sun, April 01, 2007 7:43 pm
> >>> To: rancid-discuss <at> shrubbery.net
> >>>
> >>> Dear RANCID gang:
> >>>
> >>> I'd like to announce that thanks to my public-sprited employer and
> >>> a sacrifice of much of my spare time, I've been able to put RANCID
> >>> through a complete rewrite.
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Lance | 2 Apr 2007 17:49

[rancid] Re: RANCID, the next generation?

BAH, that sux. Who celebrates that garbage day. BOOOO!!!
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Re: RANCID, the next generation?
> From: Shekhar Basnet <shekhar <at> mos.com.np>
> Date: Sun, April 01, 2007 11:36 pm
> To: Joshua Dibble <jdibble <at> gci.net>
> Cc: Lance <rancid <at> gheek.net>, rancid-discuss <at> shrubbery.net
>
> Good one...
> :-)
>
> s
>
> On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 12:00, Joshua Dibble wrote:
> > Maybe just a really good April fools joke?
> >
> > Shekhar Basnet wrote:
> > > Same here too.
> > >
> > > Shekhar Basnet.
> > >
> > > On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 09:14, Lance wrote:
> > >> Ed,
> > >>
> > >> I get a 404 error when checking "putrid.sf.net". What gives?
> > >>
> > >>> -------- Original Message --------
> > >>> Subject: [rancid]  RANCID, the next generation?
> > >>> From: Ed Ravin
> > >>> Date: Sun, April 01, 2007 7:43 pm
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