[rancid] Release Authorised RANCID Email Issue

heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Wed Apr 3 19:28:47 UTC 2013


Wed, Apr 03, 2013 at 03:04:05PM -0400, Gilmour, Scott:
> Hi
> I have followed the directions at:
> http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch1_:_Network_Backups_With_Rancid#.UVG_0BeG32t
> Now when I go to /usr/local/rancid/var/networking/configs and look in the
> config file the file is empty.  How do I get it so I can see the
> configuration file present.   Do I need to add something to the crontab
>  file.

it must first collect sucessfully.  look at the log files for errors, to
make sure that it is running successfully.  otherwise, it might be a
configuration error with rancid.conf or the group's router.db files.

>  I would like to have the script do a "show support" or "show config"

it doesnt support that.  you can add it

> I am currrently running the script every 5 minutes repeatedly.
> Under the Clean out configs differ logs what does the 50 and 23 numbers
> represent.

i'm not answering that.  look at the manpage.


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