[rancid] Re: issue with email diffs

[john heasley]

Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:26:40AM -0400, Marr, Joe:
> I checked that, I have about 75 devices several of them with ACLs that
> are updated weekly. The changes never show up.
> 
> This is only recent. I originally thought it was a setting, however I
> have not found it. We migrated the system from one box to another and
> the problem showed up shortly after. The configs and changes appear to
> be commited to CVS. 

my guess is that my autoconf tests lost; does your diff really like
'diff -U-4'?  try it out; cvs diff -U-4 -r1.37 -r1.38 XXXX-cor01.XXXX.com

> > I seem to have a problem with the config diffs I receive from rancid:
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Index: configs/XXXX-cor01.XXXX.com
> > ===================================================================
> > 
> > retrieving revision 1.38
> > 
> > diff -U-4 -r1.38 XXXX-cor01.XXXX.com
> > 
> > Index: configs/XXXX-cor05.XXXX.com
> > ===================================================================
> > 
> > retrieving revision 1.29
> > 
> > diff -U-4 -r1.29 XXXX-cor05.XXXX.com
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > when I receive an email with a diff, I only see the above text in the
> > email. I do not receive the actual differences. 
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Why would this happen?
> > 
> 
> 	In control_rancid it looks like changes where only whitespace
> changes
> get cut from the diff output. There's probably a newline added or
> subtracted,
> or something of that nature.
> 
> 	Austin
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