Re: junos config commit question

[Owen DeLong via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>]

> On Feb 11, 2022, at 14:18 , Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) <lyndon () orthanc ca> wrote:
>
> On an EX4300 switch running JunOS 14.1 let's imagine I typed
>
>       config
>       delete interfaces
>
> before coming to my senses.  How am I supposed to back out of that
> mess?  

top
rollback

> For the life of me, after a week of reading the 3000 page
> reference manual, and endless DuckDuckGoing, I cannot see a simple
> way of just abandoning the commit.  I've got to be missing something
> stunningly obvious here because it's unthinkable that this functionality
> doesn't exist.  Help?!?

You can also do:
config
<do something stupid>
commit
rollback 1
commit

And still get back to where you were before <do something stupid>

> The only way out I can see is to drop into the shell, make an
> uncompressed copy of juniper.conf.gz, then pop back into the config
> editor and load that over top of the editor's config view.  Surely
> there's a saner way of dealing with this.

Much.

Owen