[rancid] "upgrade" to 3.1 breaks par?

[Dan Anderson]

It's a Raspberry Pi running Raspian. I can get you access to the box if
you'd like it.

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 10:12 AM, John Heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:

> Am Sep 24, 2014 um 4:09 PM schrieb Dan Anderson <dan.w.anderson at gmail.com
> >:
>
> I "upgraded" by installation from 2.3.8 to 3.1 this morning. By upgrade, I
> mean "back up, rm -rf etc bin var share lib, make install" and I keep
> getting par syntax errors in the logs:
>
> Trying to get all of the configs.
>
> usage: par [-dfiqx] [-n #] [-p n] [-l logfile] [-c command] [<command
> file>]
>
> =====================================
>
> Getting missed routers: round 1.
>
> usage: par [-dfiqx] [-n #] [-p n] [-l logfile] [-c command] [<command
> file>]
>
> =====================================
>
> Getting missed routers: round 2.
>
> usage: par [-dfiqx] [-n #] [-p n] [-l logfile] [-c command] [<command
> file>]
>
> =====================================
>
> Getting missed routers: round 3.
>
> usage: par [-dfiqx] [-n #] [-p n] [-l logfile] [-c command] [<command
> file>]
>
> =====================================
>
> Getting missed routers: round 4.
>
> usage: par [-dfiqx] [-n #] [-p n] [-l logfile] [-c command] [<command
> file>]
>
>
>
> I ended up moving the par binary out of the way and restoring the perl
> version from 2.3.8 and it seems to have resolved my issue for now, but it's
> not really an ideal fix.
>
> I chucked an "echo" after the call to par in control_rancid and got this:
>
> par -q -n 5 -c 'rancid-fe "{}"' /usr/local/rancid/var/home/routers.up
>
>
> I haven't spent a lot of time on this at the moment, but I thought I would
> see if anyone else has run across this (I didn't see anything in the
> archives for the last few months) and might have an easy fix.
>
>
> Another user had a problem like this; they were on some embedded platform
> version of linux.  I had no manner of helping them.  What are you using?
>
> --
> Dan
>
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Dan
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