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

heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Thu Jun 16 21:36:11 UTC 2016


Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 03:14:13PM -0400, Howard Leadmon:
>  FYI, I did get it sorted out, but strange more haven't run into this unless
> my environment is screwy for some reason.
> 
> I had to set the USER name in the environment.   I looked at the
> environment, and saw LOGNAME=rancid, but that I didn't see USER= rancid.
> So in the crontab I set USER=rancid, and off everything went..
> 

grumble.  double middle finger to ubuntu.  i'll make it look for both
variables.



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