[rancid] Re: Email notifications

Steve Ousley steve at host-it.co.uk
Thu Jun 26 21:10:13 UTC 2008


Of Course! I forgot about the rancid log locations :D

Steve Ousley - SO620-RIPE
Nuco Technologies Ltd
steve at host-it.co.uk
www.nucotechnologies.com
Tel. 0870 165 1300

Nuco Technologies Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales
with company number 04470751


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Jacqmein [mailto:wrjacqmein at gmail.com] 
Sent: 26 June 2008 18:38
To: Steve Ousley
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] Email notifications

Steve,

        Files should be created under the log directory (default:
/home/rancid/var/logs)
        RouterLocation.YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS
        They might be more useful then creating another file.

Enjoy,

      Bill


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 5:01 AM, Steve Ousley <steve at host-it.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi
>
>
>
> We have just noticed that our rancid cron job was not running, and
therefore
> the devices were not being backed up.  Does anyone know of a way that you
> could get this to email when rancid has run, wether it changed anything or
> not, so that we at least get a notification that this has run.
>
>
>
> Hopefully with this being the case, we should be able to notice if it's
not
> working again, and sort it a lot sooner than the month or so that it took
to
> notice it this time.
>
>
>
> Alternatively, if anyone knows of a way to get the cron job to mail a
> successful/unsuccessful run of rancid-run, then this would also be useful.
>
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> Steve Ousley - SO620-RIPE
>
> Nuco Technologies Ltd
>
> steve at host-it.co.uk
>
> www.nucotechnologies.com
>
> Tel. 0870 165 1300
>
>
>
> Nuco Technologies Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales
> with company number 04470751
>
>
>
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