[rancid] blank log files on initial install

[Scott Granados]

Hi, this may be a very n00by question but googling hasn’t helped so I thought I’d ask here. I just installed a fresh copy of rancid-3.2. Admittedly my previous attempt has been using yum or apt-get to install rancid 2.3.6 but this time I downloaded the source and compiled. There were no errors during compilation.
When I run rancid-run the process exits very quickly and the generated log files for each group show a start and end with no text in-between. However, if I run the clog in command with a router name it logs in fine and drops me in to the network element. What should I check to diagnose the lack of configs being pulled and the totally empty logs other than the words start and end. Any pointers would be most appreciated.

Thank you
Scott

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[Scott Granados]

Wow I saw no mention of that in the doc. I will give this a try. I think I may have a “ missing in my config as well after coming back to this with some sleep this morning.

I will give both a try and thank you much for the pointer.

Check your router.db file and ensure you're using the correct delimiter. I had the same problem when I first upgraded to 3.1 and it took me far too long to find that you need to use a semicolon instead of a colon (a little RTFM and some hair pulling helped) and I experienced the same problem you describe.
Hostname;cisco;up
Hi, this may be a very n00by question but googling hasn’t helped so I thought I’d ask here. I just installed a fresh copy of rancid-3.2. Admittedly my previous attempt has been using yum or apt-get to install rancid 2.3.6 but this time I downloaded the source and compiled. There were no errors during compilation.
When I run rancid-run the process exits very quickly and the generated log files for each group show a start and end with no text in-between. However, if I run the clog in command with a router name it logs in fine and drops me in to the network element. What should I check to diagnose the lack of configs being pulled and the totally empty logs other than the words start and end. Any pointers would be most appreciated.
Thank you
Scott
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[Scott Granados]

This was the exact problem. I switched to using ; delimiters and it worked great.

Thank you. Your help was very much appreciated.

Check your router.db file and ensure you're using the correct delimiter. I had the same problem when I first upgraded to 3.1 and it took me far too long to find that you need to use a semicolon instead of a colon (a little RTFM and some hair pulling helped) and I experienced the same problem you describe.
Hostname;cisco;up
Hi, this may be a very n00by question but googling hasn’t helped so I thought I’d ask here. I just installed a fresh copy of rancid-3.2. Admittedly my previous attempt has been using yum or apt-get to install rancid 2.3.6 but this time I downloaded the source and compiled. There were no errors during compilation.
When I run rancid-run the process exits very quickly and the generated log files for each group show a start and end with no text in-between. However, if I run the clog in command with a router name it logs in fine and drops me in to the network element. What should I check to diagnose the lack of configs being pulled and the totally empty logs other than the words start and end. Any pointers would be most appreciated.
Thank you
Scott
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[Alex DEKKER]

Post by Scott Granados
This was the exact problem. I switched to using ; delimiters and it worked great.
Thank you. Your help was very much appreciated.

The number of times this comes up in here, I bet heasley wishes he'd
added a little check/warning to rancid to cover this :-)

alexd

[heasley]

Post by Alex DEKKER

Post by Scott Granados
This was the exact problem. I switched to using ; delimiters and it
worked great.
Thank you. Your help was very much appreciated.

The number of times this comes up in here, I bet heasley wishes he'd
added a little check/warning to rancid to cover this :-)
alexd

perhaps this

Index: bin/control_rancid.in
===================================================================
--- bin/control_rancid.in (revision 3088)
+++ bin/control_rancid.in (working copy)
@@ -278,6 +278,9 @@
exit 1;
fi

+# reading test
+@PERLV@ -F\; -ane '{if ($F[0] !~ /^\s*#/ && $F[0] !~ /^\s*$/ && $#F < 2 && $F[0] =~ /:/) {print "WARNING: Have you forgotten to update the FS in router.db?\n"; exit;}}' router.db
+
# generate the list of all, up, & down routers
cd $DIR
trap 'rm -fr routers.db routers.all.new routers.down.new routers.up.new \