rancid hangs due to expect, ssh, or cisco?

[Andrew Partan]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 09:43:32AM -0800, Randy Bush wrote:
> i think this happens for me on a non-cisco router with a cisco cli
> ---
> The following routers have not been successfully contacted for
> more than 4 hours.
> -rw-r-----  1 randy  staff  6928 Nov 18 00:15 psg2.psg.com

That is a failure to log in or connect to the router.

A rancid hang would get this message to rancid-admin-$GROUP:
	Subject: rancid hung - $GROUP

	echo hourly config diffs failed: $LOCKFILE exists

and you would have to go kill -9 some of the rancid programs
(typically a hung expect) to get things running again.

	--asp