[rancid] persistent alerts - but nothing was changed ... ?

[Wilkinson, Alex]

    0n Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 07:37:35PM +1000, Alan McKinnon wrote: 

    >On 15/07/2013 11:28, Wilkinson, Alex wrote:
    >> Hi all,
    >> 
    >> I am consistently getting rancid alerts (diffs) that config has changed on
    >> a number of Cisco Nexus devices. However, the diffs in the email are exactly
    >> the same each rancid-run(1) and are bogus.
    >> 
    >> Is there anything that would cause rancid to see bogus diffs ?
    >
    >A diff is a diff, and it has content because something is different.
    >Maybe whitespace.
    >
    >If you post one of these diffs, we can help examine it for you.

I'm using SVN not CVS.

Here is an example diff - I have not touched these lines whatsoever but get alerts every day about them:

   Index: configs/nexus4k1-5
   ===================================================================
   - -- configs/nexus1-5 (revision 85)
   @@ -94,6 +94,17 @@
     ele-fwd pause rate threshold is 1000 pps
   
   
   + interface mgmt0
   +   speed 1000
   +   duplex full
   +   vrf member management
   +   ip address 192.168.240.35/24
   +
   + interface mgmt1
   + boot kickstart bootflash:/n4000-bk9-kickstart.4.1.2.E1.1i.bin
   + boot system bootflash:/n4000-bk9.4.1.2.E1.1i.bin
   + system health loopback frequency 60
   +
     interface Ethernet1/1
       link state group 1 downstream
       spanning-tree port type edge
   @@ -194,17 +205,6 @@
     interface Ethernet1/20
       speed 10000
   
   - interface mgmt0
   -   speed 1000
   -   duplex full
   -   vrf member management
   -   ip address 192.168.240.35/24
   -
   - interface mgmt1
   - boot kickstart bootflash:/n4000-bk9-kickstart.4.1.2.E1.1i.bin
   - boot system bootflash:/n4000-bk9.4.1.2.E1.1i.bin
   - system health loopback frequency 60
   -

Any ideas of how to debug ?

   -Alex

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