[rancid] New installation

[Steve Ousley]

OK, my second installation of Rancid seemed to be all over the place, so
having simply one firewall on there, I decided to start from scratch.



I followed the instructions, and got rancid installed ok, down to point 7
(Run rancid-cvs) no errors. I then added a firewall to my "asa" group's
router.db in the form: "hostname:cisco:up" and ran rancid-run.



Now, the reason that this was restarted was due to it not putting the diffs
into CVS properly, and it seems that is still the case.



I have checked the "asa" log and have this:



rancid:/usr/local/rancid# cat var/logs/asa.20081006.170446

starting: Mon Oct 6 17:04:46 BST 2008



cvs add: in directory `.':

cvs [add aborted]: there is no version here; do `cvs checkout' first

cvs commit: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory

cvs commit: nothing known about `hostname'

cvs [commit aborted]: correct above errors first!

Added hostname



cvs status: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or directory

cvs status: use `cvs add' to create an entry for `hostname'

cvs add: in directory `.':

cvs [add aborted]: there is no version here; do `cvs checkout' first

cvs added missing router hostname





Trying to get all of the configs.

All routers sucessfully completed.



cvs diff: in directory .:

cvs [diff aborted]: there is no version here; run 'cvs checkout' first

cvs commit: in directory .:

cvs [commit aborted]: there is no version here; run 'cvs checkout' first



ending: Mon Oct 6 17:05:01 BST 2008



in the log file. I thought that the rancid-cvs command was supposed to
create all of these automatically? I have my LIST_OF_GROUPS setup as:



LIST_OF_GROUPS="switches routers asa pix"



So this all looks ok to me. Anyone have any ideas on this one?



Steve Ousley - SO620-RIPE

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[Steve Ousley]

-----Original Message-----
From: john heasley [mailto:***@shrubbery.net]
Sent: 06 October 2008 17:58
To: Steve Ousley
Subject: Re: [rancid] New installation

that should have done it. check for group/CVS and CVS/group, if they do
not exist rancid-cvs has a bug because it obviously encountered a problem
and did not display the error.

These do not exist at all:

rancid:/usr/local/rancid/var# ls CVS/
CVSROOT
rancid:/usr/local/rancid/var# ls asa/
configs router.db routers.all routers.down routers.up

mv group group.old
rancid-cvs group

Where am I doing these? In the var/ directory?

if group does not exist, then
cvs -d CVS co group

Then I assume this is if the group doesn't exist in CVS?

Steve

[Steve Ousley]

I now have a working Rancid installation. I think it is a bug in the
rancid-cvs that caused this as I simply copied the slightly older version
from our previously running rancid box, and everything went through ok first
time :)

Thanks for the help.

Steve Ousley - SO620-RIPE
Nuco Technologies Ltd
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-----Original Message-----
From: rancid-discuss-***@shrubbery.net
[mailto:rancid-discuss-***@shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Steve Ousley
Sent: 07 October 2008 09:16
To: 'john heasley'; rancid-***@shrubbery.net
Subject: [rancid] Re: New installation

-----Original Message-----
From: john heasley [mailto:***@shrubbery.net]
Sent: 06 October 2008 17:58
To: Steve Ousley
Subject: Re: [rancid] New installation

that should have done it. check for group/CVS and CVS/group, if they do
not exist rancid-cvs has a bug because it obviously encountered a problem
and did not display the error.

These do not exist at all:

rancid:/usr/local/rancid/var# ls CVS/
CVSROOT
rancid:/usr/local/rancid/var# ls asa/
configs router.db routers.all routers.down routers.up

mv group group.old
rancid-cvs group

Where am I doing these? In the var/ directory?

if group does not exist, then
cvs -d CVS co group

Then I assume this is if the group doesn't exist in CVS?

Steve