[rancid] Re: router config diffs - emailing stale info

Ian Stong istong at costar.com
Tue Jan 12 20:05:46 UTC 2010


Well I see the following in the FAQ - Q. I keep receiving the same diff
for a (or set of) devices, but I know the data is not changing
repeatedly. Why? A. This is probably a CVS or filesystem permissions
problem. Check the log file from the last run for that group for clues
first; it may provide the exact cause. Note: It is very important the
following be done as the user who normally runs the rancid collection
from cron. Check the cvs status of the device's file. example: guelah
[2704] cvs status rtr.shrubbery.net

1) I checked to ensure all the rancid and CVS files are owned by rancid
(chown -R rancid:rancid *)

2) I set the CVSROOT variable (/var/CVS) and then went into
/var/CVS/site-a/configs and type cvs status 10.20.30.4,v and it says
cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: no such file     cvs status: use
cvs add to create an entry     File: 10.20.30.4,v Status: unknown and no
entry or revision control file.

3) In the rancid log files I see some messages as follows: 
cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for `configs/10.20.30.4'
cvs commit: Up-to-date check failed for `configs/10.20.30.3'
cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!

4) Looks like a CVS issue but unclear how to resolve.


Thanks,

Ian


-----Original Message-----
From: john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2010 1:53 PM
To: Ian Stong
Subject: Re: [rancid] router config diffs - emailing stale info

Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:36:01PM -0500, Ian Stong:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> I have a rancid install that was working fine for quite awhile as it
> would email any configuration differences it found. However, recently
> it's been emailing config changes made weeks ago and keeps mailing old
> config change differences.  For example, I added a line to an existing
> ACL and it acts as if that change is being made every time rancid runs
> and does a diff (running on unix).  
> 
>  
> 
> Any ideas what to check or what might have changed to cause this?

see the cvs section of the faq.

>  
> 
> retrieving revision 1.103
> 
> diff -U 4 -r1.103 10.20.30.5
> 
> @@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Ian Stong
> 
>  
> 

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