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

[Ben O'Hara]

On 1 Jul 2011, at 03:02, Lee wrote:

>> Again, it also works fine when run manually, just not when running normally.
> 
> "normally" being run via a crontab entry - correct?
> 

Yes, it fails when run from a crontab but not manualy.

Ben

> 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
>> 
>> Ben O'Hara                        RIPE Network Coordination Center
>> Senior Systems Engineer                  Singel 258, Amsterdam, NL
>> http://www.ripe.net                                +31 20 535 4444
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>> 
> 

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Ben O'Hara                        RIPE Network Coordination Center
Senior Systems Engineer                  Singel 258, Amsterdam, NL
http://www.ripe.net                                +31 20 535 4444
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