[rancid] Initial Rancid configuration and first output

[Lee]

On 2/9/17, Rebecca Jones <becky.jones at hayley-group.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi Lee,
>
> Thanks for the suggestion.
> I have updated the : to a : and got a little bit further.
> I can test that all of my devices are accesible by running bin/clogin
> 192.168.0.2 but when I run bin/rancid-run no configurations appear
> in /usr/local/rancid/var/logs.

configs are in /usr/local/rancid/var/$GROUP/configs
where $GROUP comes from your LIST_OF_GROUPS=" ... " in rancid.conf

> Running it manually does not produce any errors. I simply get the
> following:
>
> starting: Thu 9 Feb 10:01:59 GMT 2017
>
>
> cvs commit: Examining .
> cvs commit: Examining configs
>
> ending: Thu 9 Feb 10:01:59 GMT 2017
>
> I feel I have missed something very important. Can you give me any ideas?

take another look at the 'Quick Installation Guide' steps in
 /usr/local/rancid/share/rancid/README

did you do everything in there?

Regards,
Lee

>
> Thanks,
> Becky
>
>
>
>
> On 6 February 2017 at 21:01, Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2/6/17, Rebecca Jones <becky.jones at hayley-group.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Hi guys. I really hope someone can point me in the right direction.
>> >
>> > I have setup Rancid as per guide
>> > http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/RhysEvans_overview_0.3.pdf and
>> > http://www.itnotes.eu/?p=365 but I am having issues running it for the
>> > first time.
>> >
>> > I have added a Cisco switch to my config for checking and I can
>> > manually
>> > connect to it by running "bin/clogin 192.168.1.1". I have ran
>> > "bin/rancid-run" and I get the following in the log files:
>> >
>> > starting: Mon 6 Feb 11:18:12 GMT 2017
>> >
>> > WARNING: Have you forgotten to update the FS in router.db?
>>
>> router.db field separator is a semi-colon now -
>> http://www.itnotes.eu/?p=365 is for an older version of rancid that
>> used colons
>>
>> man router.db
>> SYNTAX
>>        One device is listed per-line, where the syntax is:
>>                  <device_name>;<device_type>;<state>[;comments]
>>
>> Regards,
>> Lee
>>
>
>
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