<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hello,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I see this thread:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2019-October/010838.html" class="">https://shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2019-October/010838.html</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Looks like pretty much what I am experiencing. (Almost) Every time rancid runs for me - I get a “change” and some garbage characters in the config. Here is an example diff email showing the strings flipping around:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">—</div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class="">Index: configs/ap-me</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class="">===================================================================</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class="">retrieving revision 1.6</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class="">diff -u -4 -r1.6 ap-me</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class="">@@ -478,9 +478,9 @@</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""> wlan radio 1 802.11a-only </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""> wlan session-timeout 1 disable</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""> wlan flexconnect local-switching 1 enable</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""> wlan flexconnect learn-ipaddr 1 enable</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class="">- ø4ø4</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class="">+ >à4>à4</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""> wlan wmm require 1 </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""> wlan avc 1 visibility enable </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""> wlan wgb broadcast-tagging disable 1 </span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""> wlan wgb prp disable 1</span></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Menlo-Regular" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" class="">—</span></font></div><div class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Menlo-Regular;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Looks like in that thread, there were two solutions - making some changes to wlogin or ciscowlc.pm. I’ve put these in manually as a test, but rancid is still detecting a change (almost) every time it runs.</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">I’m running rancid 3.9 on Debian 9 (running Debian’s packages, pulling from stretch-backports to get me from 3.6.x previously to 3.9). “WLC” is really Mobility Express running on an 1832i - running latest stable </font><span class="">8.10.121.0</span></div><span class=""><br class=""></span><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Did I misunderstand that thread ? Anyone else has ran into this and has a fix ?</font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" class="">Many thanks in advance - I don’t want to remove this from rancid, but I can’t have the diff’s and emails filling up every hour either...</font></div></body></html>