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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">>> >> Running ranicd 3.8 on CentOS 6.10, using git as the repo type.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">></span>> >> It appears rancid is running numerous times against the same group in a given night - at least
if config fetches fail.<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">></span>> >> For instance, I have one group with some problematic devices, and I got 39 "config fetcher" emails
for that same group. Looking at logs, it appears rancid is parsing every group approximately the same number of times.<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">></span>> >> There is only one cronjob that kicks off rancid on the entire system:<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">></span>> >> * 0 * * * /usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-run<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">></span>> That looks right to me. Should kick off every night at midnight. Which it's doing. An entire run
takes about 4 hours or so. All logs/emails from a nightly run arrive within that time-frame - 12am - 4am.<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px; background-color:rgb(255,255,255); display:inline!important">> </span>no, its running every minute (60 times) at midnight.<br>
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<div class="PlainText">Oh brother, can't believe I missed that. Thank you!!!</div>
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