RANCID: Installation

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Rancid Basic Installation

CentOS 5.5 Final

# rpm -Uhv http://apt.sw.be/redhat/el5/en/i386/rpmforge/RPMS/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el5.rf.i386.rpm

# yum install gcc gcc-c++ automake expect gmp gmp-devel gzip tar wget cvs rcs perl-IPC-Run bash perl-URI

# groupadd netadm

# useradd -g netadm -c "Networking Backups" -d /usr/local/rancid rancid

# mkdir /usr/local/rancid/tar
# cd /usr/local/rancid/tar

# wget ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-2.3.6.tar.gz
# tar -xvzf rancid-2.3.6.tar.gz

# cd rancid-2.3.6

# ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/rancid/

# make install

# cp cloginrc.sample /usr/local/rancid/.cloginrc

# chmod 770 /usr/local/rancid/
# chown -R rancid:netadm /usr/local/rancid/
# chmod 0640 /usr/local/rancid/.cloginrc