[rancid] Cisco flash changes observed after 1st time install

[c***@comcast.net]

New user here, no luck via Google, hoping someone here has seen this behavior.

Rancid 3.1 on CentOS 6.7

I got my first Rancid instance up and noticed the following in the diff:

- !Flash: 294 4096 Jan 29 2016 03:02:19 LOCAL-CA-SERVER
+ !Flash: 294 4096 Jan 29 2016 09:01:46 LOCAL-CA-SERVER
- !Flash: 3868 282 Jan 29 2016 03:02:19 LOCAL-CA-SERVER/LOCAL-CA-SERVER.crl
+ !Flash: 3870 282 Jan 29 2016 09:01:46 LOCAL-CA-SERVER/LOCAL-CA-SERVER.crl

This happened a few times through the night, the only thing changing is the timestamp.

I'm hoping someone here can advise if either:
a) this is normal and there is a way to suppress this from triggering a diff report, or
b) I should be concerned and rancid is telling me so.

MTIA!

[heasley]

Post by c***@comcast.net
New user here, no luck via Google, hoping someone here has seen this behavior.
Rancid 3.1 on CentOS 6.7
- !Flash: 294 4096 Jan 29 2016 03:02:19 LOCAL-CA-SERVER
+ !Flash: 294 4096 Jan 29 2016 09:01:46 LOCAL-CA-SERVER
- !Flash: 3868 282 Jan 29 2016 03:02:19 LOCAL-CA-SERVER/LOCAL-CA-SERVER.crl
+ !Flash: 3870 282 Jan 29 2016 09:01:46 LOCAL-CA-SERVER/LOCAL-CA-SERVER.crl
This happened a few times through the night, the only thing changing is the timestamp.
a) this is normal and there is a way to suppress this from triggering a diff report, or
b) I should be concerned and rancid is telling me so.

I do not know why those would change automatically, but it is likely that it
is regularly re-writing it; cisco has had bugs like this many times. A new
IOS may fix it. Do you have another device with which you can compare it?

[Chris Gauthier]

Looks like you have a process touching or updating the files on that
device. Can you provide more specifics as to the device model, OS, etc?

Thanks,

Chris Gauthier, CCNP
Sr. Network Engineer
DIRECT 503.284.7581 x245
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Post by c***@comcast.net
New user here, no luck via Google, hoping someone here has seen this behavior.
Rancid 3.1 on CentOS 6.7
- !Flash: 294 4096 Jan 29 2016 03:02:19 LOCAL-CA-SERVER
+ !Flash: 294 4096 Jan 29 2016 09:01:46 LOCAL-CA-SERVER
- !Flash: 3868 282 Jan 29 2016 03:02:19
LOCAL-CA-SERVER/LOCAL-CA-SERVER.crl
+ !Flash: 3870 282 Jan 29 2016 09:01:46
LOCAL-CA-SERVER/LOCAL-CA-SERVER.crl
This happened a few times through the night, the only thing changing is the timestamp.
a) this is normal and there is a way to suppress this from triggering a diff report, or
b) I should be concerned and rancid is telling me so.
MTIA!
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