New to Rancid

[john heasley]

did you run create_cvs (rancid-cvs in newer version)?

Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 04:55:14PM -0500, Daniel Corbe:
> Trying to set up rancid.
> 
> When I do rancid-run I don't see any CVS updates.  It would appear as if 
> it isn't grabbing any confing info at all from my routers.  After I run 
> rancid-run my router.db file gets truncated to Zero:
> 
> -rw-rw----    1 root     rancid          0 Mar 31 15:50 router.db
> 
> Not sure what I did wrong.
> 
> This is my rancid.conf
> 
> TERM=network;export TERM
> umask 027
> TMPDIR=/tmp; export TMPDIR
> BASEDIR=/usr/local/var; export BASEDIR
> PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin; 
> export PATH
> CVSROOT=$BASEDIR/CVS; export CVSROOT
> LOGDIR=$BASEDIR/logs; export LOGDIR
> OLDTIME=4; export OLDTIME
> LOCKTIME=4; export LOCKTIME
> PAR_COUNT=5; export PAR_COUNT
> LIST_OF_GROUPS="cpe edge switches"
> 
> Any help would be appriciated.
> 
> Thanks