[rancid] Rancid-discuss Digest, Vol 77, Issue 6

Wed Mar 22 21:42:51 UTC 2017

On 22/03/2017 22:02, Jones, Herschel wrote:
> Alan,
>
> Crontab here -
>
> # .---------------- minute (0 - 59)
> # |  .------------- hour (0 - 23)
> # |  |  .---------- day of month (1 - 31)
> # |  |  |  .------- month (1 - 12) OR jan,feb,mar,apr ...
> # |  |  |  |  .---- day of week (0 - 6) (Sunday=0 or 7) OR
> sun,mon,tue,wed,thu,fri,sat
> # |  |  |  |  |
> # *  *  *  *  * user-name  command to be executed
>
> * 1 * * * /usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-run #hourly router dump
   ^
This is your problem. It runs every minute when the hour is "1", every 
minute from 01:00 to 01:59

I think you got the hours and minutes column swapped, you probably want

0 * * * * /usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-run #hourly router dump

to run once an hour, on the hour, every hour.
If you really did want rancid to run once a day at 1am, it is this:

0 1 * * * /usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-run #hourly router dump

The golden rule of cron is you cannot specify intervals like "every 10 
minutes" or "once a day". You can only give the exact time when a job 
must run. I find it very useful to read the columns as saying for example:

when the big hand is at 0 and the little hand is at 4, then do this :-)

> 50 23 * * * /usr/bin/find /usr/local/rancid/var/logs -type f -mtime +2
> -exec rm {} \;
>
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> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 13:43:50 +0000
> From: "Jones, Herschel" <Herschel.Jones at meridianbrick.com>
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> Subject: [rancid] Rancid Sending Emails Every 2 Minutes
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> Forgive my newbiness, but hey, I made Rancid work, so that has to say
> something. Only issue I am having is with Rancid spamming our network
> group when there is a router down. It emails like it is supposed to,
> except it does it every ~2 minutes for an hour. That doesn't seem normal
> to me, but I couldn't find anything online about it or how to change it.
>
> Thanks in advance for any advice.
>
> Herschel Jones
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> From: heasley <heas at shrubbery.net>
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> Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 01:43:50PM +0000, Jones, Herschel:
>> Forgive my newbiness, but hey, I made Rancid work, so that has to say
> something. Only issue I am having is with Rancid spamming our network
> group when there is a router down. It emails like it is supposed to,
> except it does it every ~2 minutes for an hour. That doesn't seem normal
> to me, but I couldn't find anything online about it or how to change it.
>
> See OLDTIME in rancid.conf(5) and "state" in router.db(%).  but, 2 mins
> is weird; normally one runs rancid from cron every 1 hour.  maybe you
> have an MTA problem too.
>
>
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> Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 08:49:12 +0200
> From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon at gmail.com>
> To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Rancid Sending Emails Every 2 Minutes
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> On 21/03/2017 15:43, Jones, Herschel wrote:
>> Forgive my newbiness, but hey, I made Rancid work, so that has to say
>> something. Only issue I am having is with Rancid spamming our network
>> group when there is a router down. It emails like it is supposed to,
>> except it does it every ~2 minutes for an hour. That doesn?t seem
>> normal to me, but I couldn?t find anything online about it or how to
> change it.
>
> What's on your crontab?
>
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