New to Rancid

[Daniel Corbe]

Howdy, :)

By backtracing my Qmail logs, rancid seems to be sending diff files to 
the user that's running rancid.  The rancid username in this case is 
"rancid at mars.resultstel.com"

This solves the problem from my end.  I can simply forward 
"rancid at mars.resultstel.com" to the Mailing List I set up to receive the 
diffs; however, as a matter of convenience it'd be nice if I could send 
them somewhere else.  Specifically if it would honor the 
rancid-group at domain E-Mail addresses for each of the router diffs and 
their respective groups.

 From what I've read in the documentation, it should do this now.  I'm 
not sure how to set it up though.

Thanks for all your help BTW.

Daniel Corbe wrote:

>
> I recreated the router.db files by hand and now they seem to be 
> sticking around.  I'm guessing that was just as a consequence of me 
> setting those files up before I did a rancid-cvs.  *shrug*
>
> Now though, I don't see any diffs being mailed off.  Not sure they're 
> even making it into the CVS repository.  Does rancid-run do a cvs 
> commit when it's done?
>
> [rancid at mars edge]$ cvs update -AdP
> cvs update: Updating .
> ? routers.all
> ? routers.down
> ? routers.failed
> ? routers.up
> cvs update: Updating configs
> cvs update: cannot open CVS/Entries for reading: No such file or 
> directory
>
> john heasley wrote:
>
>> cd to the dir where this router.db file is and run
>> cvs update -AdP
>> and tell me what the output is.
>>
>> Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 05:03:52PM -0500, Daniel Corbe:
>>  
>>
>>> Yuhp
>>>
>>> john heasley wrote:
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>>  
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