parts of config missing, then back

[john heasley]

i've seen boxes that ommit their configs at random.  usually related
to memory shortage.

if you cant get it to do it manually, i'd suggest setting NOPIPE=YES
in bin/env and add a cronjob that copies the 5200_hostname.raw file 
to a separate_dir/5200_hostname.raw.time.  so you can verify that its
not (or is) rancid or the box.  and you can prove it to cisco :)

Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:44:49AM -0500, jlewis at lewis.org:
> I've noticed an occasional bug, where for some reason rancid will lose 
> large parts of a config (seems to only happen on Cisco AS5200's so far).  
> Eventually, the missing config (or parts of it) comes back.  i.e.
> 
> In the past couple of runs for one particular 5248, first 70 lines of
> config vanish (everything in interface Ethernet0 other than the interface
> name, most of interface Virtual-Template1, and the entire sections for
> interfaces serial0, serial1, serial0:23, and serial1:23).  Some number of
> runs later, the serial interfaces return, but the missing config data from
> Ethernet0 and Virtual-Template1 are still gone.  I'm running do-diffs 
> hourly, so somehow the same incomplete config is downloaded multiple times 
> before returning to normal.
> 
> Anyone seen this before?
> 
> Revision 1.4 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Thu Nov 14 
> 05:15:36 2002 UTC (16 minutes, 31 seconds ago) by rancid
> Branch: MAIN
> CVS Tags: HEAD
> Changes since 1.3: +42 -0 lines
> Diff to previous 1.3 (colored)
> 
> Revision 1.3 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Thu Nov 14 
> 02:16:12 2002 UTC (3 hours, 15 minutes ago) by rancid
> Branch: MAIN
> Changes since 1.2: +0 -70 lines
> Diff to previous 1.2 (colored)
> 
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