[rancid] Extra spaces being randomly added - and seen as config changes

[Kerry Cox]

My issue is that every hour, the configs from my Cisco ASAs are reporting as alternating between having content in the BootFlash: setting and then having no content.
I have changed the setting in rancid.conf to be NOPIPE = YES and also NO, with no change.
I have also run "rancid -d 10.10.0.1" against the firewalls from the command line and seen zero issues.  Everything checks out.
I have run rancid by itself against the firewall and saved the raw output and then done a diff against over 10 files. The output is always the same, no change.
So, I guess it is my cron job that is causing the variations?

# Run config differ hourly at 5 minutes past the hour
5 * * * *       /usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-run

Is there another setting I am missing that could be causing the BootFlash: BOOT variable to change?
Thanks for all the input.  I guess I'll set my cron to once a day rather than once an hour so I don't get so many false alerts.
Kerry

-----Original Message-----
From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Alex DEKKER
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 3:39 PM
To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] Extra spaces being randomly added - and seen as config changes

On 04/01/13 15:39, Kerry Cox wrote:
> - !BootFlash: BOOT variable = 
> disk0:/asa911-k8.bin;disk0:/asa901-k8.bin
> + !BootFlash: BOOT variable =


> -----Original Message-----
> From:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net  
> [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Aaron 
> Wasserott
> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2013 3:31 AM Here is an example from a 
> ScreenOS device:
>
> set ike gateway "xcolo" address 123.45.67.89 Main outgoing-interface 
> "bgroup0" preshare "wLE/x18INtTxJ6sT42CM5FxvOphJ/3%YZg==" sec-level 
> standard
> + #set ike gateway "xcolo" address 123.45.67.89 Main 
> + outgoing-interface "bgroup0" preshare<removed>  sec-level standard

Did you add the <removed> or do you have RANCID set to strip certain keys and passwords from configs? If the latter, then I would say that your [Aaron's] issue is not related to Kerry's.

alexd
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