[rancid] Re: missed cmd issues - "wr term"

[Austin Schutz]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:46:27AM -0500, David B. Stewart wrote:
> I've seen several reports by others having this same problem, but have yet to find a report of cause and resolution.
> RANCID was working fine for weeks, then started dropping "wr term" from the runs in an apparently random, though
> semi-permanent, fashion.  Once this problem hits, it doesn't seem to go away.  The nodes in question are Cisco IOS.
> 
> My suspicion is that it is resource problem on the rancid server.  Suspicions don't count for much, though.  Can someone
> shed some light on the issue?
> 
> Sample log is shown below.  Notice that in this case, the 10.y.z.20 seems to run OK, but the first two fail.  They fail
> consistently from the scheduled runs.  Manual clogin runs to the specific nodes have no apparent problem.
> Unfortunately, I know of no way to get the manual run to do the full diff and CVS archive.

	When I have these problems I log into the offending device and
run each command one by one. This almost always results in the device having
some abnormal behavior during the command in question due to some router
OS bug.

	Austin