[rancid] what if a device audit fails?

[Pete Perreault]

Just read the rancid.conf file, should have before I sent this.  Everything
is there.

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Pete Perreault
<peter.perreault at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have rancid 2.3.2 running successfully on fedora.  I have questions
> related to what rancid does if a device audit fails to successfully
> complete.  This may occur if the device is not reachable or if rancid's
> credentials are not accepted.
>
> I run rancid from cron with the following command.
>
> 0 22 * * 5,6 /usr/libexec/rancid/rancid-run
>
> As you can see it is run twice a week, Friday and Saturday at 10pm.  When
> my rancid logs indicate a device audit was not successfully completed,
> subsequent log messages indicate that rancid attempts to audit all the
> devices within the group one hour after the previous failure.  This
> continues until the device audit is successful.
>
> Is this in fact the default behavior?
> Is there a way to change this behavior either permanently (config change)
> or for the individual instance (kill a process?)?
> How is this happening?  Is rancid, cron or something else making this
> happen?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Pete
>



-- 
Pete
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