# The sysutils/rancid port

## rancid-3.9v0 – Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ

## Description

    RANCID monitors a router's (or more generally a device's)
    configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers,
    etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System) to maintain history of
    changes.

    RANCID does this by the very simple process summarized here:
    	* login to each device in the router table (router.db)
    	* run various commands to get the information that will be saved
    	* cook the output; re-format, remove oscillating or incrementing data
    	* email any differences (sample) from the previous collection to a
    	  mail list
    	* and finally commit those changes to the revision control system

WWW: https://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/

Categories:
  sysutils

## Library dependencies

## Build dependencies

- devel/gmake
- lang/expect

## Run dependencies

- lang/expect