[rancid] Issues running rancid from cron on Ubuntu..

[Howard Leadmon]

  Maybe this will be an easy one for someone to answer, I can hope.   I had
rancid for years running on FBSD, but recently moved over on to a current
Ubuntu server.   I moved my configs across, and have it so if from a shell
prompt I perform a rancid-run life is good, it's seeing all the gear, and
saving cofigs, and emailing updates to me.

 

The problem is when I toss rancid-run into cron, it spits errors and will
not read the configs.  So it's for sure an issue of this being kicked into
cron, but using google-fu I am finding nothing.  I even tried not calling
the symlink but calling the main executable directly, but still no
difference.

 

Here is the error I see in the rancid.log file if I let this execute from
cron:

 

 

starting: Thu Jun 16 12:31:02 EDT 2016

 

Trying to get all of the configs.

no such variable

    (read trace on "env(USER)")

    invoked from within

"add user       *                       $env(USER)"

    ("eval" body line 1)

    invoked from within

"eval $line"

    (procedure "source_password_file" line 21)

    invoked from within

"source_password_file $password_file"

    (file "/usr/lib/rancid/bin/clogin" line 853)no such variable

    (read trace on "env(USER)")

    invoked from within

"add user       *                       $env(USER)"

    ("eval" body line 1)

    invoked from within

"eval $line"

    (procedure "source_password_file" line 21)

    invoked from within

"source_password_file $password_file"

    (file "/usr/lib/rancid/bin/clogin" line 853)

 

switch-1: missed cmd(s): all commands

switch-1: End of run not found

!

 

 

This ONLY happens when I execute from cron, if done locally in a shell, all
works perfectly.

 

In crontab, I simply have the time and path to rancid-run.

 

Any ideas?

 

 

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Howard Leadmon 

 

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