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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I apologize for replying to myself but it seems like the reason it's trying to send that many emails is because it thinks that this is a change and so it's creating a diff for things like this:</p>
<p>38,39c38,39<br />< ! syslog1.sys r- 131072 -- 26-Apr-2016 15:15:24 <br />< ! syslog2.sys r- 131072 -- 26-Apr-2016 15:15:24 <br />---<br />> ! syslog1.sys r- 131072 -- 26-Apr-2016 15:26:39 <br />> ! syslog2.sys r- 131072 -- 26-Apr-2016 15:26:39 </p>
<p>We're solely using RANCID as a way to backup the configuration files on our devices. </p>
<p>Is there any way to globally disable it checking the file dates on the syslog files on network devices?</p>
<p>I noticed on other switches it appears to think that the wattage being used by the PSUs is a configuration change.</p>
<p>Do I need to make a custom version of whatever commands it's running to exclude things that change constantly?</p>
<p id="reply-intro">On 2026-05-13 14:37, Andrew Weaver wrote:</p>
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<p>Hello,</p>
<p>I noticed that the logs on our RANCID machine were growing quite large.</p>
<p>I determined that it is because it's writing 10MB of this half of the time rancid-run runs:</p>
<p>No configuration file found at /home/rancid/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc<br />No configuration file found at /home/rancid/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc<br />No configuration file found at /home/rancid/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc<br />No configuration file found at /home/rancid/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc<br />No configuration file found at /home/rancid/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc<br />No configuration file found at /home/rancid/.esmtprc or /etc/esmtprc</p>
<p>So then I created a blank .esmtprc file that caused it to start logging two lines for each thing that I don't want it doing in the first place. ;)</p>
<p>File /home/rancid/.esmtprc must have no more than -rwx--x--- (0710) permissions.<br />open: /home/rancid/.esmtprc: Success</p>
<p>OK fine, I fixed that.</p>
<p>How do I just disable every single thing to do with SMTP .esmtprc, etc?</p>
<p>Thank you so much if anyone can assist me.</p>
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