[rancid] Re: Help with Rancid Netscreen

[Trevor Coyle]

Rancid has been running for the last few years backing up cisco's

I edited the GROUPS in the rancid.conf to include the new netscreen
group

Then I ran rancid-cvs

Test the nlogin to see if it could login under the Rancid user which it
could get into the firewall

I Ran Rancid-run and I get that error my first mail in the logs

NOTE: I had to change some things in the bin/nrancid to get it to run, I
was getting missing curly bracket errors so I added them in to the
correct place and the errors stopped

Crontab - 

# rancid
01 0 * * * rancid  /usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-run

Thank You for your help,
Trevor

-----Original Message-----
From: john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net] 
Sent: 11 February 2010 21:10
To: Trevor Coyle
Cc: ?rni Birgisson; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] Re: Help with Rancid Netscreen

Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 04:31:12PM -0000, Trevor Coyle:
> Arni,
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> It's a run as atask with crontab
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> Its running as user rancid the same as the cisco devices
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> Its one instance for the routers and firewalls

if its one cron job, its truely bizarre.

you must be affecting the path environment variable somehow between
running
one group and the next.

your cronjob should be similar to

<time spec> <path>/bin/rancid-run

no more is required.
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> Tks,
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> Trevor
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> From: ?rni Birgisson [mailto:ABirgisson at fattoc.com] 
> Sent: 11 February 2010 16:26
> To: Trevor Coyle
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Help with Rancid Netscreen
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> If rancid is working correctly for other devices then your version
control system works.
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> Are you running the commands manually to get this error?
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> Is it possible that rancid normally runs as some user (ie. "rancid")
but you are running it as a different user (root) ?
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> Is it one instance of rancid doing everything or a seperate
instance/config for the firewalls?
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> - Arni
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> On Feb 11, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Trevor Coyle wrote:
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> Thank you for the reply,
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> Rancid is working for all Cisco Devices but the Netscreen Firewall is
having the problem, I have created a new group for Juniper and it can
login into the Firewall OK but doesn't seem to be taking the config
down, would you say I need to install CVS in this case?
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> Trevor
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> ________________________________
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> From: ?rni Birgisson [mailto:abirgisson at fattoc.com] 
> Sent: 11 February 2010 16:17
> To: Trevor Coyle
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Help with Rancid Netscreen
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> >From these logs it's apparent that you either don't have CVS
installed, or the user that is running rancid
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> doesn't have the correct path to the cvs command.
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> You probably need to "apt-get install cvs" (debian/ubuntu) or "yum
install cvs" (redhat/fedora).
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> Is your rancid installation working for anything or is this the first
device you are using rancid for?
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> -Arni
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> On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Trevor Coyle wrote:
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> Hi I was wondering if you could help?
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> I'm currently trying to backup the config for a Juniper (Netscreen
SSG-550) and the log file is coming out with
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> starting: Thu Feb 11 12:51:48 GMT 2010
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> /usr/local/rancid/bin/control_rancid: line 234: cvs: command not found
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> /usr/local/rancid/bin/control_rancid: line 235: cvs: command not found
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> Added file_name
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> /usr/local/rancid/bin/control_rancid: line 260: cvs: command not found
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> Trying to get all of the configs.
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> =====================================
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> Getting missed routers: round 1.
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> =====================================
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> Getting missed routers: round 2.
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> =====================================
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> Getting missed routers: round 3.
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> =====================================
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> Getting missed routers: round 4.
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> /usr/local/rancid/bin/control_rancid: line 372: cvs: command not found
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> /usr/local/rancid/bin/control_rancid: line 384: cvs: command not found
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> ending: Thu Feb 11 12:51:50 GMT 2010
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> The File output in Configs is blank, the nlogin is able to login to
the firewall but the nrancid doesn't seem to be outputting the config
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> Can you please Help
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> Thank You,
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> Trevor
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