[rancid] changes in <group> routers

[Steve Ousley]

Hi All

I've just upgraded our rancid box from Debian Etch to Lenny (rather late I know, but hey).

Anyway, after the upgrade, I ran a manual rancid-run on a specific firewall, and all seemed ok.

What I did notice was that there was an email generated for each group stating a list of routers who's status had changed to down, the list, however, consisted of no routers.

I thought this was maybe an oddity as it was the first run of rancid since the update, so ignored it.

Now, after it's scheduled run, I get the email again.

Literally the entire contents of the email is:


"Routers changed to down:"



Does anyone have any ideas why seemingly the upgrade to Lenny could have caused this?



Out of interest, i'm using a slightly older version of rancid, as I've found it a pain on our systems to get the latest version up and running, but have not encountered this issue at all on our older etch system.


If anyone has any ideas what could be causing this, and how we could fix it to stop generating these "blank" emails, it would be much appreciated

TIA

Steve Ousley
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[john heasley]

Post by Steve Ousley
What I did notice was that there was an email generated for each group stating a list of routers who's status had changed to down, the list, however, consisted of no routers.
I thought this was maybe an oddity as it was the first run of rancid since the update, so ignored it.
Now, after it's scheduled run, I get the email again.
"Routers changed to down:"
Does anyone have any ideas why seemingly the upgrade to Lenny could have caused this?

this is most likely the configure script or the PATH in rancid.conf winding-up
with arguments for diff that it doesnt like. see DIFF_CMD in the config.status
file that was generated by configure.

[Steve Ousley]

Hi John

It seems that I've deleted the source for Rancid at some point. Would there be any other place that this would be set? Somewhere in the Rancid etc or var folder maybe?

Steve Ousley
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-----Original Message-----
From: john heasley [mailto:***@shrubbery.net]
Sent: 28 May 2010 22:54
To: Steve Ousley
Cc: rancid-***@shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] changes in <group> routers

Post by Steve Ousley
What I did notice was that there was an email generated for each group stating a list of routers who's status had changed to down, the list, however, consisted of no routers.
I thought this was maybe an oddity as it was the first run of rancid since the update, so ignored it.
Now, after it's scheduled run, I get the email again.
"Routers changed to down:"
Does anyone have any ideas why seemingly the upgrade to Lenny could have caused this?

this is most likely the configure script or the PATH in rancid.conf winding-up
with arguments for diff that it doesnt like. see DIFF_CMD in the config.status
file that was generated by configure.