[rancid] Explain email error

Sun Sep 29 03:47:18 UTC 2013

Alan,

Just
Let me know the timing and I'll give you access. That login won't work anyway.

Thank you,

Ryan Milton
MVS Network Manager
O: 201-447-1505 x124
C: 862-249-5230
________________________________________
From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net <rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net> on behalf of Ryan Milton <rmilton at mvsusa.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 10:27:16 PM
To: Hughes, Doug; Alan McKinnon; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] Explain email error

I will be answering a couple of things here:

I don't have a .bash_profile only a .profile which I changed:

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH="$HOME/bin:$PATH"

To

# set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists
if [ -d "$HOME/bin" ] ; then
    PATH=/usr/lib/rancid/bin:$PATH

Which doesn't seem to change what happens.

To Alan, the name is fake, because all our equipment has public IP
addresses! In fact
I named everything: IPADDRESS:hp:up or some variation, but all are IP
Addresses, no names.

Alan,
Locate .cloginrc yields:

/home/rancid/.cloginrc
/home/ryan/.cloginrc
/var/lib/rancid/.cloginrc

But they can't seem to be removed (?) They show up in the search, but when
I try to remove: "No such file".

Rancid-fe, I only added the paloalto line:

root at ObserviumNYC:/usr/lib/rancid/bin# sudo vi rancid-fe

    'hp'                => 'hrancid',
    'juniper'           => 'jrancid',
    'mrtd'              => 'mrancid',
    'mrv'               => 'mrvrancid',
    'netopia'           => 'trancid',
    'netscaler'         => 'nsrancid',
    'netscreen'         => 'nrancid',
    'procket'           => 'prancid',
    'paloalto'          => 'panrancid',
    'redback'           => 'rrancid',
    'riverstone'        => 'rivrancid',
    'smc'               => 'srancid',
    'tnt'               => 'tntrancid',
    'zebra'             => 'zrancid'
);

I followed the install instructions from:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RANCID#Introduction

http://www.binaryroyale.com/index.php/category/umbungo/

OK ALAN! I'M IN. With all the headache that this has caused, I'm not going
to stop now. I have been interested in a clean install, but I wouldn't
know where to begin.

Easiest thing is to use the rancid user, R at nc1d pass. @94.229.11.72

I can do it now---but it is late, or at a scheduled time.

Ryan

I appreciate sticking with me on this, I WILL read those books!

On 9/28/13 9:29 PM, "Hughes, Doug" <Douglas.Hughes at DEShawResearch.com>
wrote:

>Right you are! I didn't look closely enough. Ryan, that PATH line need to
>go into a file ~rancid/.bash_profile
>
>
>Ryan, you can do this:
>
>   echo "PATH=/usr/lib/rancid/bin:$PATH" >> ~rancid/.bash_profile
>
>(but I do recommend a good introductory Unix or Linux book like those by
>Mark Sobell, O'Reilly, or other.)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Alan McKinnon [mailto:alan.mckinnon at gmail.com]
>Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 8:34 PM
>To: Hughes, Doug; Ryan Milton; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
>Subject: Re: [rancid] Explain email error
>
>On 29/09/2013 02:11, Hughes, Doug wrote:
>> Path looks good. So, if you become the rancid user (su to root, then su
>>- rancid), you should be able to run panrancid or hprancid or crancid or
>>whatever from any directory, anywhere.
>
>
>No, he will still need to set PATH in rancid's shell.
>
>rancid.conf is only sourced by rancid-run so settings there do not apply
>to the shell. Other postings by Ryan indicate that this is in fact what
>he's running into.
>
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net
>>[mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Ryan Milton
>> Sent: Saturday, September 28, 2013 8:05 PM
>> To: Alan McKinnon; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
>> Subject: Re: [rancid] Explain email error
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> From the bottom, looking in /etc/passwd:
>> rancid:x:1001:1001:Rancid,,,:/home/rancid:/bin/bash  (I take that as
>> incorrect!)
>>
>> From /var/lib/rancid/Network/router.db :  hpswitch.ams:hp:up
>> -I only have it here (used locate router.db, only one line came back)
>>
>> My rancid.conf
>>
>>  rancid 2.3.6
>> # This file sets up the environment used for rancid.  see rancid.conf(5)
>> #
>> # This will be site specific
>> #
>> TERM=network;export TERM
>> #
>> # Create files w/o world read/write/exec permissions, but read/exec
>> permissions
>> # for group.
>> umask 027
>> #
>> # Under BASEDIR (i.e.: --localstatedir), there will be a "logs"
>>directory
>> for
>> # the logs from rancid and a directory for each group of routers
>>defined in
>> # LIST_OF_GROUPS (below).  In addition to these, there will be a "CVS"
>> # directory which is the cvs (or Subversion) repository.
>> #
>> # Use a full path (no sym-links) for BASEDIR.
>> #
>> TMPDIR=/tmp; export TMPDIR
>> # Be careful changing this, it affects CVSROOT below.
>> BASEDIR=/var/lib/rancid; export BASEDIR
>>
>>PATH=/usr/lib/rancid/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin;
>> export PATH
>> # Location of the CVS/SVN repository.  Be careful changing this.
>> CVSROOT=$BASEDIR/CVS; export CVSROOT
>> # Location of log files produced by rancid-run(1).
>> LOGDIR=$BASEDIR/logs; export LOGDIR
>> #
>> # Select which RCS system to use, "cvs" (default) or "svn".  Do not
>>change
>> # this after CVSROOT has been created with rancid-cvs.  Changing between
>> these
>> # requires manual conversions.
>> RCSSYS=cvs; export RCSSYS
>> #
>> # if ACLSORT is NO, access-lists will NOT be sorted.
>> #ACLSORT=YES; export ACLSORT
>> #
>> # if NOPIPE is set, temp files will be used instead of a cmd pipe during
>> # collection from the router(s).
>> #NOPIPE=YES; export NOPIPE
>> #
>> # FILTER_PWDS determines which passwords are filtered from configs by
>>the
>> # value set (NO | YES | ALL).  see rancid.conf(5).
>> #FILTER_PWDS=YES; export FILTER_PWDS
>> #
>> # if NOCOMMSTR is set, snmp community strings will be stripped from the
>> configs
>> #NOCOMMSTR=YES; export NOCOMMSTR
>> #
>> # How many times failed collections are retried (for each run) before
>> # giving up.  Minimum: 1
>> #MAX_ROUNDS=4; export MAX_ROUNDS
>> #
>> # How many hours should pass before complaining about routers that
>> # can not be reached.  The value should be greater than the number
>> # of hours between your rancid-run cron job.  Default: 24
>> #OLDTIME=4; export OLDTIME
>> #
>> # How many hours should pass before complaining that a group's
>>collection
>> # (the age of it's lock file) is hung.
>> #LOCKTIME=4; export LOCKTIME
>> #
>> # The number of devices to collect simultaneously.
>> PAR_COUNT=15; export PAR_COUNT
>> #
>> # list of rancid groups
>> #LIST_OF_GROUPS="sl joebobisp"
>> # more groups...
>> #LIST_OF_GROUPS="$LIST_OF_GROUPS noc billybobisp"
>> LIST_OF_GROUPS="MVSNetwork"
>> # For each group, define a list of people to receive the diffs.
>> # in sendmail's /etc/aliases.
>> #   rancid-group:       joe,moe at foo
>> #   rancid-admin-group: hostmaster
>> # be sure to read ../README regarding aliases.
>> # If your MTA configuration is broken or you want mail to be forwarded
>>to a
>> # domain not the same as the local one, define that domain here.  "@"
>>must
>> be
>> # included, as this is simply appended to the usual recipients.  It is
>>NOT
>> # appended to recipients specified in rancid-run's -m option.
>> #MAILDOMAIN="@example.com"; export MAILDOMAIN
>> #
>> # By default, rancid mail is marked with precedence "bulk".  This may be
>> # changed by setting the MAILHEADERS variable; for example no header by
>> setting
>> # it to "" or adding X- style headers.  Individual headers must be
>> separated
>> # by a \n.
>> #MAILHEADERS="Precedence: bulk"; export MAILHEADERS
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/28/13 6:57 PM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On 29/09/2013 00:30, Ryan Milton wrote:
>>>> I have had quite a time getting my HP Procurve switches to work with
>>>> rancid. Long story short, this test works:
>>>>
>>>> /usr/lib/rancid/bin/hlogin -f /var/lib/rancid/.cloginrc <device>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I get into the devices from the cli.
>>>>
>>>> When I just let rancid contact the devices on its own, then I get this
>>>> email, which makes me think there is a permissions error (?):
>>>>
>>>> The following routers have not been successfully contacted for
>>>> more than 24 hours.
>>>> -rw-r----- 1 rancid rancid 0 Sep 27 10:09 94.229.14.250
>>>>
>>>> On the other hand, when I look in my logs, the message is simply that
>>>> rancid couldn't login.
>>>>
>>>> (?!?!) clogin error: Error: Couldn't login
>>>> <device>: missed cmd(s): show stack,show module,show flash,show
>>>> version,show system-information,write term,show system information
>>>>
>>>> This is the eternal issue! Everytime I think I've got it: boom!
>>>>Failure
>>>
>>> You are running hlogin. rancid-run is launching clogin.
>>>
>>> That is incorrect and is a data error. Please provide the exact line in
>>> router.db for that device (make sure you check all your groups, you may
>>> have it defined in two places); your complete rancid.conf; and whether
>>> /var/lib/rancid/ truly is rancid's home directory per /etc/passwd
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Alan McKinnon
>>> alan.mckinnon at gmail.com
>>>
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>
>
>--
>Alan McKinnon
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>

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