[rancid] Re: rancid sending same diffs every time cron runs

[john heasley]

Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:53:50PM -0500, Jason Ellison:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Mark wrote:
> > Jason Ellison wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> ? I'm running rancid-2.3.2a9 (modded) with CVS backend. ?Quite often
> >> rancid sends me the same cvs diffs every time the cron job runs. ?To
> >> fix it I have to remotely login and run rancid-run via an interactive
> >> shell. ?Host operating system is Slackware.
> >>
> >> ? Anyone seen this before?
> >
> > Sadly I see this all the time on 2 rancid boxes we have here. ?I've not
> > tried that as a fix, my fix was to just rebuild CVS and have it start
> > over. ?However, I will try your fix and see if works for me.
> >
> > As for a true fix, you got me.
> >
> > Mark
> 
> 
> Do people using svn see the same issue?  getting emails of diffs
> though nothing has changed?

have you tried running the diff manually to see if its simply not up-to-date?

cd /var/rancid/<groupname>; svn diff