[rancid] rancid doesnt log changes and receiving duplicate rancid emails

[Nimal David Sirimanne]

Hi there,

I recently took over management of network for my company. Now the 
previous guy had a rancid running, and it was running fine until about 
end of October.

Whatever changes made to the network devices after that, was not 
captured by rancid, and no email notification. I read through some 
documentation on rancid, and even tested the rancid to see if there was 
any problem with it logging on to the devices using the commands "sudo 
/usr/local/rancid/bin/clogin -f /usr/local/rancid/.cloginrc -u 
ranciduser x.x.x.x". It worked like a charm...no hiccups.

Looking through the system, i noticed that the /var/spool/mqueue and 
/var/spool/clientmqueue was filled with messages. Sendmail was stuck. 
Somehow a server restart fixed that...and now i'm receiving rancid 
emails on an hourly basis.

However, the emails i receive are all duplicates. Even if i make a lot 
of configuration (minor stuff like creating username, removing 
usernames) but these changes arent reflected in the hourly emails. Even 
when if i add a new network device, a new CVS entry gets created, but 
any subsequent change to this network device, does not result in any 
change to the CVS entry.

I'm stumped...any pointers on what i can check? Do let me know if you 
need more details. Thanks guys!

Nimal D. Sirimanne