[rancid] rancid -t cisco host works but rancid host does not.

[Alan McKinnon]

On 05/05/2014 08:22, Gavin Jones wrote:
> Andrei Sabau <fanachos <at> gmail.com> writes:
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>> Hello. I've recently installed Rancid on a Centos 6. I have worked with it 
> before a bit but never encountered this issue.
>> I have hosts assigned in the hosts file. I have the host added in 
> <group>/router.db
>> The clogin command works. The clogin -c command works.
>> The log from run-rancid shows almost empty. I tried running the comands 
> separately but 'rancid host' gives me a:loadtype(): device_type is empty
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>> Couldn't load device type spec for 
>> but 'rancid -t cisco host' works. I'm thinking this has to do with rancid 
> and the group's router.db.
>> my group is in rancid.conf (LIST_OF_GROUPS="networking") but is the 
> networking/router.db even read?
>> Any ideas are helpful, thanks.
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> I too am having this exact problem, surely there is a fix??
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> Thanks


Two things stand out to be checked in router.db:

1. If you are using rancid 2.x the device type is "cisco" and the field
separator is a colon ":"
2. If you are using rancid 3.x the device type is "cisco" and the field
separator is a semi-colon ";"



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