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

[Jethro R Binks]

On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Lee wrote:

> After seeing that the regularly scheduled rancid run failed to get
> several F5 configs this morning I ran it manually:
> 
> export NOPIPE=YES
> rancid-run F5
> 
> rancid collected all the configs & no errors in the log.  Crontab
> kicked off the rancid run later in the day & several F5s showed up in
> the log with the
> missed cmd(s): ls --full-time --color=never /config/ssl/ssl.crt,ls
> --full-time --color=never /config/ssl/ssl.key
> 
> again, run rancid manually with NOPIPE=YES and everything works.
> 
> Any thoughts on how to debug the problem would be appreciated since
> the standard debugging suggestion is to set NOPIPE and use the -d
> option.  I have yet to see rancid fail to get an F5 config if nopipe
> is set

In that case, in rancid.conf you can set NOPIPE permanently:

# if NOPIPE is set, temp files will be used instead of a cmd pipe during
# collection from the router(s).
NOPIPE=YES; export NOPIPE

Does that help?

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks, Network Manager,
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