[rancid] Re: Problems with getting configuration from a PIX 501.

[Steve Ousley]

Oh, ok, I hadn't checked if it was still running,  but I do remember running
killall -9 rancid-run before I had done that anyway.  So I guess
inadvertently I had made sure it wasn't running, but not really consciously.
=/

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-----Original Message-----
From: john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
Sent: 15 July 2008 16:54
To: Steve Ousley
Subject: Re: [rancid] Re: Problems with getting configuration from a PIX
501.

Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 01:00:13PM +0100, Steve Ousley:
> Problem solved
> 
>  
> 
> I had a stunning idea to check the logs for the pix on rancid... lord only
> knows why I didn't think to do this sooner, but in there it stated that
> /tmp/.pix.run.lock existed.  Knowing that rancid was not running, I
removed
> this file, and ran rancid, and now we have updates on all the pix
firewalls.
> :)  

you should actually check that its really not running before removing that.
it could have been stuck or it could be a left-over from a system crash.