[rancid] Re: Help with Rancid Netscreen

Fri Feb 12 17:02:20 UTC 2010

Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 09:07:13AM -0000, 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

check the PATH variable in rancid.conf.  ensure that the syntax is
correct and the location of cvs is included.

> 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

that was fixed and is definitely in the current version.

> 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,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > It's a run as atask with crontab
> > 
> > Its running as user rancid the same as the cisco devices
> > 
> > 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.
> >  
> > 
> > Tks,
> > 
> > Trevor
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ________________________________
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > If rancid is working correctly for other devices then your version
> control system works.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Are you running the commands manually to get this error?
> > 
> > Is it possible that rancid normally runs as some user (ie. "rancid")
> but you are running it as a different user (root) ?
> > 
> > Is it one instance of rancid doing everything or a seperate
> instance/config for the firewalls?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > - Arni
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > On Feb 11, 2010, at 4:22 PM, Trevor Coyle wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Thank you for the reply,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 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?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Trevor
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ________________________________
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > >From these logs it's apparent that you either don't have CVS
> installed, or the user that is running rancid
> > 
> > doesn't have the correct path to the cvs command.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > You probably need to "apt-get install cvs" (debian/ubuntu) or "yum
> install cvs" (redhat/fedora).
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is your rancid installation working for anything or is this the first
> device you are using rancid for?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > -Arni
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > On Feb 11, 2010, at 2:49 PM, Trevor Coyle wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi I was wondering if you could help?
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > I'm currently trying to backup the config for a Juniper (Netscreen
> SSG-550) and the log file is coming out with
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > starting: Thu Feb 11 12:51:48 GMT 2010
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > /usr/local/rancid/bin/control_rancid: line 234: cvs: command not found
> > 
> > /usr/local/rancid/bin/control_rancid: line 235: cvs: command not found
> > 
> > Added file_name
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > /usr/local/rancid/bin/control_rancid: line 260: cvs: command not found
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Trying to get all of the configs.
> > 
> > =====================================
> > 
> > Getting missed routers: round 1.
> > 
> > =====================================
> > 
> > Getting missed routers: round 2.
> > 
> > =====================================
> > 
> > Getting missed routers: round 3.
> > 
> > =====================================
> > 
> > Getting missed routers: round 4.
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > /usr/local/rancid/bin/control_rancid: line 372: cvs: command not found
> > 
> > /usr/local/rancid/bin/control_rancid: line 384: cvs: command not found
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > ending: Thu Feb 11 12:51:50 GMT 2010
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > 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
> > 
> >  
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Can you please Help
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Thank You,
> > 
> > Trevor
> > 
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