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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Well I copied .cloginrc to the / directory and now it’s working, I’m happy </span><span style='font-family:Wingdings;color:#1F497D'>J</span><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=RU style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=RU style='color:windowtext'> Alexander Griesser [mailto:AGriesser@anexia-it.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 4, 2017 8:53 AM<br><b>To:</b> Vacheslav <m_zouhairy@skno.by>; 'Alex DEKKER' <rancid@ale.cx>; rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net<br><b>Subject:</b> AW: [rancid] problem with rancid crontab<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='color:windowtext'>What operating system is this? I’m not sure why this is happening for you, but this might as well be just because you’re running the jobs in the system cron and the environment is not being passed to the script upon execution.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='color:windowtext'>Can you please just try to add this crontab line to the rancid user’s cron?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='color:windowtext'>i.e. login as user rancid (f.ex. `su – rancid`) and then run `crontab -e` and add the cron there? This should definitely fix it.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='color:windowtext'>The only change necessary in the crontab line is to remove the column with the username „rancid“.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='color:windowtext'>best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Alexander Griesser<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Head of Systems Operations<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>ANEXIA Internetdienstleistungs GmbH<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>E-Mail: <a href="mailto:AGriesser@anexia-it.com"><span style='color:blue'>AGriesser@anexia-it.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Web: <a href="http://www.anexia-it.com/"><span style='color:blue'>http://www.anexia-it.com</span></a> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959'>Anschrift Hauptsitz Klagenfurt: Feldkirchnerstraße 140, 9020 Klagenfurt<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959'>Geschäftsführer: Alexander Windbichler<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE-AT style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#595959'>Firmenbuch: FN 289918a | Gerichtsstand: Klagenfurt | UID-Nummer: AT U63216601<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE style='color:windowtext'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=DE style='color:windowtext'>Von:</span></b><span lang=DE style='color:windowtext'> Rancid-discuss [<a href="mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net">mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net</a>] <b>Im Auftrag von </b>Vacheslav<br><b>Gesendet:</b> Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2017 07:44<br><b>An:</b> 'Alex DEKKER' <<a href="mailto:rancid@ale.cx">rancid@ale.cx</a>>; <a href="mailto:rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net">rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net</a><br><b>Betreff:</b> Re: [rancid] problem with rancid crontab<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=DE><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>So how to change home from / to /var/rancid?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=RU style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=RU style='color:windowtext'> Rancid-discuss [<a href="mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net">mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Vacheslav<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 3, 2017 5:59 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Alex DEKKER' <<a href="mailto:rancid@ale.cx">rancid@ale.cx</a>>; <a href="mailto:rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net">rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [rancid] problem with rancid crontab<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Good observation, I was creating it using winscp, now I nanoed it and the log file produced:<br>export HOME="/"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export LANG="en_US.utf8"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export LOGNAME="rancid"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export MAILTO="root"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export OLDPWD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export PWD="/"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export SHELL="/bin/bash"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export SHLVL="2"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export USER="rancid"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>export _="/tmp/test2.sh"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH=/bin/sh<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASHOPTS=cmdhist:complete_fullquote:extquote:force_fignore:hostcomplete:interactive_comments:progcomp:promptvars:sourcepath<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_ALIASES=()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_ARGC=()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_ARGV=()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_CMDS=()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_LINENO=([0]="0")<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_SOURCE=([0]="/tmp/test2.sh")<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="4" [1]="3" [2]="48" [3]="1" [4]="release" [5]="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu")<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>BASH_VERSION='4.3.48(1)-release'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>DIRSTACK=()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>EUID=103<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>GROUPS=()<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>HOME=/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>HOSTNAME=nagios<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>HOSTTYPE=x86_64<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>IFS=' <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>'<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>LANG=en_US.utf8<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>LOGNAME=rancid<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>MACHTYPE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>MAILTO=root<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>OPTERR=1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>OPTIND=1<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>OSTYPE=linux-gnu<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>PIPESTATUS=([0]="0")<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>POSIXLY_CORRECT=y<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>PPID=22660<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>PS4='+ '<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>PWD=/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>SHELL=/bin/bash<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments:posix<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>SHLVL=2<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>TERM=dumb<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>UID=103<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>USER=rancid<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>_=export<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>/<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=RU style='color:windowtext'>From:</span></b><span lang=RU style='color:windowtext'> Rancid-discuss [<a href="mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net">mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces@shrubbery.net</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Alex DEKKER<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, October 3, 2017 5:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net">rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [rancid] problem with rancid crontab<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 03/10/17 15:37, Vacheslav wrote:<span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Well it didn’t run because when I su rancid and execute:<br>/root $ /tmp/test.sh</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>bash: /tmp/test.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>running: sh /tmp/test.sh</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>produces a log file with the following content:</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>/root</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>How to fix the script?</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><br>If there really is a ^M on the first line of the script then that suggests it was created with "DOS" line endings. What are you using to edit files? I can imagine that unexpected DOS line endings will cause the various components of RANCID to fail in unexpected ways.<br><br>alexd<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>