[rancid] missed cmds, but only when run from cron

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 12:20:11PM +0800, James Andrewartha wrote:
> On 14/08/13 12:05, Paul Gear wrote:
> > I'm seeing something very similar with one Mikrotik device out of 17 on 
> > our network.  If run from the command line, it works fine.  If run from 
> > cron, one router in the group fails, giving the following error log:
> 
> I had the same problem with a script I'd adapted, the solution was to
> increase the timeout, as the device was quite slow to generate its config.

Oooh, I have a blog post on exactly this, with Mikrotiks.

http://blather.michaelwlucas.com/archives/1336

I've also found that switching mtlogin to always do "export compact"
can help.

==ml

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