[rancid] Need some Help - F5's in RANCID

[Ryan West]

Ben and lee are not the only ones.  I've been commenting that line out for a while.  I have a mix of 9.4 - 10.2 being backed up to a debian 5 box. 

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On Jul 1, 2011, at 5:42 AM, Jethro R Binks <jethro.binks at strath.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Jun 2011, Lee wrote:
> 
>> Well!!  It doesn't seem to depend on NOPIPE.  rancid run manually to 
>> collect F5 configs works -- with NOPIPE set or clear.  Rancid run from 
>> crontab sometimes works, sometimes not.
>> 
>> Unless someone beats me to it (hint, hint :) I'll try to figure out next 
>> week if it's an env. variable setting missing from the crontab run 
>> that's causing the problem
> 
> If something works from crontab but not from the command line, then the 
> classic explanation is that there is something in the environment that's 
> different.
> 
> You can simply run the "env" command from cron and examine the mail output 
> to see what environment cron jobs run within.  Then you can replicate that 
> at the command line and see if that fixes the problem, and then further 
> modify the environment to see what breaks.
> 
> However, if it "sometimes" works from cron and sometimes not, then it is 
> unlikely to be the environment I'd say.  Maybe something else: any NFS 
> automounting going on?  Clashing with some other job (do the failures 
> happen in particular windows in time)?  Check the cron logs to see what 
> else may be running at the time.  Is it one F5 host or all of them that 
> fail?  Maybe it is host-related.
> 
> Jethro.
> 
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