[rancid] Sending Summary E-Mails

[Gordon Ross]

Rancid, as I see at the moment, sends an e-mail with the full text of
changes in it. Is it possible to configure rancid to also send a summary
e-mail saying "Device X configuration has changed", without the actual
diffs in it (and still send the e-mails with the fill diffs to elsewhere
?)

GTG

[Austin Schutz]

Post by Gordon Ross
Rancid, as I see at the moment, sends an e-mail with the full text of
changes in it. Is it possible to configure rancid to also send a summary
e-mail saying "Device X configuration has changed", without the actual
diffs in it (and still send the e-mails with the fill diffs to elsewhere
?)

You could run cvs stat right before or after the email is sent in
control_rancid. You would have to do a little extra work to format it the way
you want.

Rancid won't do anything like that out of the box, but it would not
be a monstrous task to do if you have any experience with shell or perl
programming.

Austin

[john heasley]

Post by Austin Schutz

Post by Gordon Ross
Rancid, as I see at the moment, sends an e-mail with the full text of
changes in it. Is it possible to configure rancid to also send a summary
e-mail saying "Device X configuration has changed", without the actual
diffs in it (and still send the e-mails with the fill diffs to elsewhere
?)

You could run cvs stat right before or after the email is sent in
control_rancid. You would have to do a little extra work to format it the way
you want.
Rancid won't do anything like that out of the box, but it would not
be a monstrous task to do if you have any experience with shell or perl
programming.

also see share/rtrfilter