Debugging RANCID

I’m a big fan of RANCID for managing configurations for embedded devices, such as most routers and switches. While you can go buy CiscoWorks, OpenView, or any number of proprietary products, RANCID is good enough for the overwhelming majority of us. (Those products do have other advantages, but simple configuration revision control isn’t one of them.)

For those who haven’t used RANCID: it logs into your devices every hour, gets the device configuration, and compares it to the stored configurat...