[rancid] Need some Help - F5's in RANCID

[Lee]

> Again, it also works fine when run manually, just not when running normally.

"normally" being run via a crontab entry - correct?

Lee



On 6/29/11, Ben O'Hara <bohara at ripe.net> wrote:
>
> On 28 Jun 2011, at 09:36, Jethro R Binks wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Lee wrote:
>>
>>> After seeing that the regularly scheduled rancid run failed to get
>>> several F5 configs this morning I ran it manually:
>>>
>>> export NOPIPE=YES
>>> rancid-run F5
>>>
>>> rancid collected all the configs & no errors in the log.  Crontab
>>> kicked off the rancid run later in the day & several F5s showed up in
>>> the log with the
>>> missed cmd(s): ls --full-time --color=never /config/ssl/ssl.crt,ls
>>> --full-time --color=never /config/ssl/ssl.key
>>>
>>> again, run rancid manually with NOPIPE=YES and everything works.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts on how to debug the problem would be appreciated since
>>> the standard debugging suggestion is to set NOPIPE and use the -d
>>> option.  I have yet to see rancid fail to get an F5 config if nopipe
>>> is set
>>
>> In that case, in rancid.conf you can set NOPIPE permanently:
>>
>> # if NOPIPE is set, temp files will be used instead of a cmd pipe during
>> # collection from the router(s).
>> NOPIPE=YES; export NOPIPE
>>
>> Does that help?
>>
>
> We've been seeing the same problem with 2 f5s running 10.2.1
>
> others running 10.2.0 are fine.
>
> Again, it also works fine when run manually, just not when running normally.
>
> Tried setting NOPIPE=yes but the problem still persists.
>
> Ben
>
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