false "changes in XXX routers" reports

Yuval Ben-Ari yuvalba at netvision.net.il
Wed Oct 22 08:16:41 UTC 2003


done
will have to see ......

> -----Original Message-----
> From: john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 4:59 PM
> To: Yuval Ben-Ari
> Cc: Andrew Partan; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: false "changes in XXX routers" reports
> 
> 
> Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:48:02PM +0200, Yuval Ben-Ari:
> > thanks,
> > 
> > rancid is run as cron job of user "rancid" whom has 
> permissions to write
> > to the files.
> > also, the problem happens randomly and I can't find any 
> pattern here.
> 
> iirc, when control_rancid runs, it actually uses temporary 
> files which are
> renamed to routers.{up,down}.  so, the directory must also be 
> writable.
> 
> your safest bet/fix is likely;
> 	# cd ~rancid
> 	# chown -R rancid .
 



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