[rancid] Re: Newbie question: I get an email every hour even when nothing has changed.

[Alan Evans]

Quick update on my problem.

My initial thoughts were wrong. The problem was that I got different
results when rancid was run from a cronjob and when it was run from the
command line.

Cron looked like this:
!Flash: nvram:  1920  -rw-       30609     <no date> underlying-config
Command line looked like this:
!Flash: :       1920  -rw-       30609     <no date> underlying-config

Notice the missing "nvram" when run from the command line.
I managed to figure out that if I changed the $dev regex in rancid
script (line#1898)
From:
	my($dev) = (/\s([^\s]+):/);
To:
	my($dev) = /\S+\s+(\S+):/;

Then the nvram appears in both cron and command line outputs.
I have no explanation why, but it works for me.

Cheers
AlanE