[rancid] Re: issue with email diffs

Austin Schutz tex at off.org
Tue Jul 17 07:59:19 UTC 2007


On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 11:15:50PM -0400, Marr, Joe wrote:
> I seem to have a problem with the config diffs I receive from rancid:
> 
>  
> 
> Index: configs/XXXX-cor01.XXXX.com
> ===================================================================
> 
> retrieving revision 1.38
> 
> diff -U-4 -r1.38 XXXX-cor01.XXXX.com
> 
> Index: configs/XXXX-cor05.XXXX.com
> ===================================================================
> 
> retrieving revision 1.29
> 
> diff -U-4 -r1.29 XXXX-cor05.XXXX.com
> 
>  
> 
> when I receive an email with a diff, I only see the above text in the
> email. I do not receive the actual differences. 
> 
>  
> 
> Why would this happen?
> 

	In control_rancid it looks like changes where only whitespace changes
get cut from the diff output. There's probably a newline added or subtracted,
or something of that nature.

	Austin


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