keep on receiving routers down messages

[john heasley]

Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 12:44:29PM +0545, Shekhar Basnet:
> I have just installed rancid version 2.3. Everything seems to work fine. 
> But I keep on receiving messages informing about routers changes in the 
> group every hour that rancid-run is run. My inbox is overwhelmed with 
> these messages. I have included the message below for reference. I was 
> previously running rancid 2.2.2 smoothly without any problems. Cvs status 
> shows
> up-to-date. Has anyone else encountered this kind of prob? I am running 
> rancid
> 2.3 under Fedora Core release 1.

its due to the diff(1) that is being picked-up via the PATH in rancid.conf
or the options that are being passed to it, both chosen by the configure
script.  most likely it is that gnu diff started refusing the -4 (number
of context lines) option at some point.  see the diff commands in
control_rancid and try them, eg
	diff -u -4 /dev/null /dev/null
should produce the exit code 0.

if you use 2.3.1, this should be dealt with acceptably for linux, but still
doesnt work quite right for solaris.  and, we're trying to come up with a
better configure test for diff.

> tia
> shekhar.
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 06:01:27 +0545
> To: rancid-durbarmarg at chulu.mos.com.np
> Subject: changes in durbarmarg routers
> 
> Routers changed to down: