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-This is a looking glass based on Ed Kern's which can be found on
+This is a looking glass based on Ed Kern's which used to be available on
http://nitrous.digex.net/. This version supports cisco, juniper, and
foundry, using rancid's [cfj]login to login (so rcmd is not necessary,
it can use telnet, ssh, or rsh), and has some additional commands
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ the looking glass requires the CGI and LockFile-Simple perl modules.
these can be retrieved from CPAN, http://www.cpan.org/. CGI's home is
ftp://ftp-genome.wi.mit.edu/pub/software/WWW/. it also requires
the POSIX module (for strftime) and Sys::Syslog, which i believe come
-with perl5.
+with perl5 and/or are converted with h2ph(1).
basic installation instructions:
@@ -54,11 +54,13 @@ and install bits in /usr/local/rancid/util/lg (or <prefix>/util/lg).
DirectoryIndex lgform.cgi
2) the LG needs to be able to find and read lg.conf. by default this
- is installed as <PREFIX>/util/lg/lg.conf and the LG will look there.
- however, LG_CONF environment variable can be used to move it elsewhere.
+ is installed as <PREFIX>/util/lg/lg.conf and the LG will first look in
+ its CWD (current working directory) and then <PREFIX>/util/lg/lg.conf if
+ it does not exist in the CWD. However the LG_CONF environment variable can
+ be used to move it elsewhere.
- to get LG_CONF into the enviroment, you can SetEnvIf in apache's
- httpd.conf like this for example:
+ to get LG_CONF into the enviroment, you can use SetEnvIf in apache's
+ httpd.conf. for example:
SetEnvIf Request_URI "\/lg/.*.cgi" LG_CONF=/usr/local/util/lg/lg.conf
3) edit <PREFIX>/util/lg/lg.conf.