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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal> Maybe this will be an easy one for someone to answer, I can hope. I had rancid for years running on FBSD, but recently moved over on to a current Ubuntu server. I moved my configs across, and have it so if from a shell prompt I perform a rancid-run life is good, it’s seeing all the gear, and saving cofigs, and emailing updates to me.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> The problem is when I toss rancid-run into cron, it spits errors and will not read the configs. So it’s for sure an issue of this being kicked into cron, but using google-fu I am finding nothing. I even tried not calling the symlink but calling the main executable directly, but still no difference.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> Here is the error I see in the rancid.log file if I let this execute from cron:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>starting: Thu Jun 16 12:31:02 EDT 2016<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Trying to get all of the configs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>no such variable<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> (read trace on "env(USER)")<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> invoked from within<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"add user * $env(USER)"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> ("eval" body line 1)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> invoked from within<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"eval $line"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> (procedure "source_password_file" line 21)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> invoked from within<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"source_password_file $password_file"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> (file "/usr/lib/rancid/bin/clogin" line 853)no such variable<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> (read trace on "env(USER)")<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> invoked from within<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"add user * $env(USER)"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> ("eval" body line 1)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> invoked from within<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"eval $line"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> (procedure "source_password_file" line 21)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> invoked from within<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>"source_password_file $password_file"<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> (file "/usr/lib/rancid/bin/clogin" line 853)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>switch-1: missed cmd(s): all commands<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>switch-1: End of run not found<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>This ONLY happens when I execute from cron, if done locally in a shell, all works perfectly.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>In crontab, I simply have the time and path to rancid-run.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any ideas?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#1F497D'>---<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;color:#1F497D'>Howard Leadmon </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>