[rancid] Re: Email notifications

[Steve Ousley]

OK, upon further investigation, it wasn't in fact cron that was failing.
The cron was running the script no problems, however having implemented a
new script that also backs the configs up, we hadn't added the "rancid-run"
command to this (it takes a little while to run, and wanted to know it would
copy the files ok).

I think your solution (with this in mind) is the best way to go about it.
Since that will also report if cron fails, OR if rancid-run fails.

Is there a file that gets updated every time rancid runs? Or is it best to
simply add in something like:

echo "" >> /path/to/rancid/did.it.run

so that when it runs, it will update that file, and therefore the
modification time on that file.

You think this would be the best way?

Steve Ousley - SO620-RIPE

-----Original Message-----
From: Burton Windle [mailto:bwindle at fint.org] 
Sent: 26 June 2008 13:21
To: Steve Ousley
Subject: Re: [rancid] Email notifications

Perhaps something that monitors the RANCID log directory, and takes note 
when no files have been added recently?

What was causing cron to fail?

-- 
Burton Windle                           bwindle at fint.org



On Thu, 26 Jun 2008, Steve Ousley wrote:

> 
> Hi
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> We have just noticed that our rancid cron job was not running, and
therefore the devices were not being backed up.  Does anyone know of a
> way that you could get this to email when rancid has run, wether it
changed anything or not, so that we at least get a notification that
> this has run.
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> 
> Hopefully with this being the case, we should be able to notice if it?s
not working again, and sort it a lot sooner than the month or so
> that it took to notice it this time.
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> Alternatively, if anyone knows of a way to get the cron job to mail a
successful/unsuccessful run of rancid-run, then this would also be
> useful.
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> Thanks in advance.
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> 
> Steve Ousley - SO620-RIPE
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