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>> Running ranicd 3.8 on CentOS 6.10, using git as the repo type.<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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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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<div class="PlainText">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.</div>
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