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

Daniel Schmidt daniel.schmidt at wyo.gov
Tue Jul 16 14:28:10 UTC 2013


Odd, I don't have many issues.  On the subject of white space, I believe it
was John Jetmore who proposed this white space fix, is it in your code?

#########################
--- nxrancid-238-dist   2012-06-14 10:58:55.000000000 -0500
+++ nxrancid-238-local  2012-06-14 11:00:00.000000000 -0500
@@ -380,7 +380,7 @@
        s/        Draw /  /;
        s/ ----------- /  /;
        s/        N\/A  /  / ||
-       s/ \d+ W /  /;          # Does not chop enough to line up.
+       s/ [ \d]{9} W /  /;             # Does not chop enough to line
up. (does now)

        /actual draw/ && next;  # Drop changing total power output.

###########################




On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:06 PM, Chris Moody <chris at node-nine.com> wrote:

> I see TONS of buggy outputs that cause this same behavior from our Nexus
> boxes.
>
> It's almost entirely due to whitespace changes in outputs.
>
> You'd seriously think that the output of something like show commands
> would be consistent...but I guess that's too hard to do. ;o)
>
> -Chris
>
>
>
> On 7/15/13 5:37 AM, 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.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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