Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon <at> gmail.com> writes:


> Our rancid stuff runs on FreeBSD (I banned Gentoo from all new
> production installs 3 years ago...) so we mostly don't bother with
> packages. Good old "./configure && make && make install" is what works
> for us.


OK, although Rancid is not exactly what I was looking for. Still,
I'll give it a look.


> [1] lemme guess - you deal with actual live networks right? Real ones
> that people built. Not the kind of mythical networks described in
> Gartner white papers and Cisco training manual where everything is
> somehow supposed to all just magically work out the box (but
> doesn't...)?


Unfortunately, yes. Not only that, I work often in heterogenous
router environments. Often things that work well between a single
vendor's routers, do not work well with a myriad of different
makes, models, and firmware versions from off-brands......

The bitch of it all, is often I work on routers in non-climate controlled
environments, so they are rated to 40 C and beyond.........

I still cannot find the IOS syntax that compensates for heat and humidity......
I'm going to check out those minimal webservers, just for grins.

thx,
James

On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 05:32:54AM +0100, Stroller wrote

> Consider this installation-free alternative:
> http://www.google.co.uk/searchq=one+line+python+web+server

This. Here's a Gentoo-specific script, which I saved as "~/bin/webd"
that handles Python 2 and 3...

================================================== =
#!/bin/bash
cd ${1}
current_python=`eselect python show`
if [ "${current_python:0:7}" == "python2" ]; then
python -m SimpleHTTPServer
elif [ "${current_python:0:7}" == "python3" ]; then
python -m http.server 8000
fi
================================================== =

If it's called as simply "webd", it serves up my home directory. If
it's called as "webd /usr/portage/distfiles" it allows access to my
distfiles directory. Note that the user that launches webd has to have
at least read access to the directories to be served.

--
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>

On Sat, May 05, 2012 at 03:00:25PM -0700, Keith Dart wrote:
> Re , James said:
> > #copy running-config [http | https] <url>
>
>
> Routers can usually also write to a tftp or ftp server. Those are
> actually simpler to set up.
>
> To use HTTP you would also have to set up a POST handler.
>
>
> -- Keith
>
>
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Well a small web-server is going to handle the POST headers for you -
you're not going to have to write everything from scratch.