[rancid] Issues with inherited install of Rancid

[Erik Denny]

I'm the lucky owner of an inherited running copy of Rancid.

I love the product, but I have a nightmare.

First, I can't tell you what version I'm running as each script appears
to have it's own version number, so there is no consistency on version
identification.

It's running, I see the collected files, but it appears to not be
checking things into CVS properly. No errors, disk space is ok, the
usual suspect list appears fine.

I haven't seen anything like this in the archives, and it seems like it
would be a simple fix.

I plan on upgrading to the latest version when migrated to a new
machine, but the current install is so mangled all over the place that
I'd rather just get that one working, rather than trying to figure out
how to upgrade in place.

Thanks in advance.

...erik

[Lance]

Erik,

A while back I posted something called PSV. It basically prints to each
file the version of the scripts used to collect the data at the top of
the files. This helps in knowing "1" what versions you are running to
get each configs data and "2" identifying where you have received errors
when doing an upgrade (you would see what script versions have been
updated).

Read this thread to see the script I wrote and an example output of it.

http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2006-September/001777.html

In regards to upgrading, it is easy as along as you keep the same
CVS/SVN repo. If you change your repo then you have some challenges to
over come.

Lastly, RANCID is not a single script. It is a collection of scripts.

-Lance

-------- Original Message --------
Date: Mon, October 01, 2007 8:39 am
I'm the lucky owner of an inherited running copy of Rancid.
I love the product, but I have a nightmare.
First, I can't tell you what version I'm running as each script appears
to have it's own version number, so there is no consistency on version
identification.
It's running, I see the collected files, but it appears to not be
checking things into CVS properly. No errors, disk space is ok, the
usual suspect list appears fine.
I haven't seen anything like this in the archives, and it seems like it
would be a simple fix.
I plan on upgrading to the latest version when migrated to a new
machine, but the current install is so mangled all over the place that
I'd rather just get that one working, rather than trying to figure out
how to upgrade in place.
Thanks in advance.
...erik<hr>_______________________________________________
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