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.\"
.hys 50
.TH "rancid" "1" "13 Jan 2001"
.SH NAME
rancid \- Cisco configuration filter
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B rancid
[\fB\-dl\fP]
([\c
.BI \-f\ \c
filename]\ \c
| hostname)
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B rancid
is a
.BR perl (1)
script which uses
.BR clogin (1)
to login to a Cisco router, execute commands to display
the configuration, etc, then filters the output for formatting, security,
and so on.
.B rancid's
product is a file with the name of it's last argument plus the suffix .new.
For example, hostname.new.
.PP
There are complementary scripts for Cisco catalyst switch, Juniper, Foundry,
and ADC-kentrox EZ-T3 mux named
.B cat5rancid,
.B jrancid,
.B francid,
and
.B erancid,
respectively.
.PP
The command-line options are as follows:
.TP
.B \-d
Display debugging information.
.\"
.TP
.B \-l
Display somewhat less debugging information.
.\"
.TP
.B \-f
.B rancid
should interpret the next argument as a filename which contains the
output it would normally collect from the device (
.I hostname\c
) with
.IR clogin (1).
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR control_rancid (1),
.BR clogin (1),
.BR env (5)
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