[rancid] Re: Config making problem

[john heasley]

Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 07:16:22AM +0200, Rozs Norbert:
> john heasley ?rta:
>> Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 06:01:41PM +0200, Rozs Norbert:
>>   
>>> Yes, I executed rancid-cvs, it made the directory structure for all  
>>> entries of LIST_OF_GROUPS, rancid-run
>>> make all the things for the cvs (the "source of the diff's") but no  
>>> configs in the group/config directory.
>>>     
>>
>> check the group's router.db file.  it'l need at least 1 device that is
>> marked 'up'.  also see router.db(5).
>>   
>
> The router.db for the group has 12 entries, all in the format  
> <name>:cisco:up
> and all the names are in the /etc/hosts. (I wrote before that clogin can  
> login and
> can execute commands.)

If rancid-cvs created stuff for the group, and there are devices in the
group, and the group is in LIST_OF_GROUPS, and cron is working, then at a
minimum the log file for the group look similar to:


Trying to get all of the configs.
All routers sucessfully completed.

cvs diff: Diffing .
cvs diff: Diffing configs
cvs commit: Examining .
cvs commit: Examining configs

ending: Sat Oct 3 15:10:59 UTC 2009


debug it.  sh -x rancid-run or sh -x control_rancid groupname

>>> Shane Kavanagh ?rta:
>>>     
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> have you executed rancid-cvs (/usr/lib/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs) to  
>>>> update the rancid and populate the cvs app
>>>>
>>>> SK
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 2009/10/5 Norbert Rozs <crok.bic at gmail.com <mailto:crok.bic at gmail.com>>
>>>>
>>>>     Hi Everyone
>>>>
>>>>     I have a strange problem with RANCID. Everything working fine with
>>>>     it, I have about 14..16 groups
>>>>     in my install and the problem is some of the groups working
>>>>     (login, make commands, get output,
>>>>     format the output and get cvs infos, make the config files in
>>>>     right place) but some of the groups
>>>>     not working (login, make commands, get output, format output but
>>>>     no configs in the right dirs.).
>>>>     So I tried all thing to troubleshoot: clogin works, all commands
>>>>     can run on the devices, but it is
>>>>     not working. Please give me some ideas what goes wrong, what could
>>>>     be the problem. The logs
>>>>     are empty, just a start statement and an end statement is in there.
>>>>
>>>>     Thank you!
>>>>
>>>>     -- 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>     Best regards:
>>>>     -----------
>>>>     Norbert Rozs
>>>>
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