[rancid] issues with email delivery

[Alan McKinnon]

On 07/06/2015 03:28, Delmiro Campelo wrote:
> Hello guys,
> 
> I'm hoping that you can give me some ideas here. I'm in the process of
> installing rancid and I thought I had it working but for some reason my
> emails are sent to the wrong email address,
> rancid-networking at realdomain.net
> <mailto:rancid-networking at realdomain.net> is not valid and not what I
> have specified in my aliases, I'm stuck on this :( how can I fix it ? i
> need them to go to myemail at realdomain.net <mailto:myemail at realdomain.net>.
> 
> I'm used this article as the guide to help me set it up
> http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch1_:_Network_Backups_With_Rancid#.VXNW70anFjY,
> please see below, and thank you for any help you can provide.
> 
> **************************************************************************
> rancid.conf file:
> #
> LIST_OF_GROUPS="networking"
> 
> Aliases file:
> /etc/aliases
> # Rancid email addresses              
> #
> rancid-networking:              myemail at realdomain.net
> <mailto:myemail at realdomain.net>
> rancid-admin-networking:        myemail at realdomain.net
> <mailto:myemail at realdomain.net>
> 
> PostFix log below:
> Jun  6 20:00:17 vm-rancid postfix/qmgr[2246]: 400828034349: removed
> Jun  6 20:00:35 vm-rancid postfix/pickup[2245]: 0464D8034349: uid=1001
> from=<rancid>
> Jun  6 20:00:35 vm-rancid postfix/cleanup[2302]: 0464D8034349:
> message-id=<20150607010035.0464D8034349 at vm-rancid.realdomain.net
> <mailto:20150607010035.0464D8034349 at vm-rancid.realdomain.net>>
> Jun  6 20:00:35 vm-rancid postfix/qmgr[2246]: 0464D8034349:
> from=<rancid at realdomain.net <mailto:rancid at realdomain.net>>, size=2360,
> nrcpt=1 (queue active)
> Jun  6 20:00:35 vm-rancid postfix/smtp[2309]: 0464D8034349:
> to=<rancid-networking at realdomain.net
> <mailto:rancid-networking at realdomain.net>>, orig_to=<rancid-networking>,
> relay=mail.realdomain.net <http://mail.realdomain.net>[10.2.11.22]:25,
> delay=0.32, delays=0.01/0/0.01/0.3, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0
> <20150607010035.0464D8034349 at vm-rancid.realdomain.net
> <mailto:20150607010035.0464D8034349 at vm-rancid.realdomain.net>>
> [InternalId=7366618] Queued mail for delivery)
> Jun  6 20:00:35 vm-rancid postfix/qmgr[2246]: 0464D8034349: removed


That howto looks like something from Joe Random Blogger. It's suspect.
It also references rancid 2.3.2, which is ancient.

Current version is 3.2, and the first problem you are going to run into
is the change in format of router.db

Don't use that howto.

Install rancid using any normal method (rpm, yum, tarball - the method
does not matter) and then follow the text files supplied by rancid itself.

Have you run newaliases since editing /etc/aliases?


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon at gmail.com