[c-nsp] annoying SYS-6-EXIT_CONFIG messages

[Jared Mauch]

On Aug 26, 2010, at 4:11 PM, Dominik Bay wrote:

> On Thu, 26 Aug 2010 15:50:48 -0400
> Jared Mauch <jared at puck.nether.net> wrote:
> 
>> We complained to cisco about this as well, but they seemingly are
>> unaware and uncaring of this impact to customers as it magically
>> showed up "in a code sync".  This is obnoxious if you have an
>> automated process (eg: rancid) login hourly to send you diffs from
>> the device.
> 
> I don't know why you want diffs from sh log anyway ... and most
> syslog-Viewer can suppress those messages.
> I added some filters to suppress script usernames showing up in my
> syslog but I don't care about this feature/bug that much ;-)
Dominik,

It's more about the culture at Cisco of "we can introduce undocumented changes at our own whim and not give you knobs to disable them".

Then trying to chase down the developer that made the change, got it past code review, etc.. and impacts you at a later date is the problem.  Basically, cisco is unaccountable for many items, like the misguided 'java' downloader they introduced to help people that breaks downloads for another swath of users.

This was likely some well-intentioned item added for audit compliance, but it showing up randomly in code without a knob to turn it off and no release note is the real 'crime against their userbase'.

- jared