[rancid] problem with rancid crontab

[Vacheslav]

Well I copied .cloginrc to the / directory and now it’s working, I’m happy J

 

From: Alexander Griesser [mailto:AGriesser at anexia-it.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 8:53 AM
To: Vacheslav <m_zouhairy at skno.by>; 'Alex DEKKER' <rancid at ale.cx>;
rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: AW: [rancid] problem with rancid crontab

 

What operating system is this? I’m not sure why this is happening for you,
but this might as well be just because you’re running the jobs in the system
cron and the environment is not being passed to the script upon execution.

 

Can you please just try to add this crontab line to the rancid user’s cron?

i.e. login as user rancid (f.ex. `su – rancid`) and then run `crontab -e`
and add the cron there? This should definitely fix it.

The only change necessary in the crontab line is to remove the column with
the username „rancid“.

 

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Von: Rancid-discuss [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] Im Auftrag
von Vacheslav
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 4. Oktober 2017 07:44
An: 'Alex DEKKER' <rancid at ale.cx <mailto:rancid at ale.cx> >;
rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net <mailto:rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net> 
Betreff: Re: [rancid] problem with rancid crontab

 

So how to change home from / to /var/rancid?

 

From: Rancid-discuss [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf
Of Vacheslav
Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 5:59 PM
To: 'Alex DEKKER' <rancid at ale.cx <mailto:rancid at ale.cx> >;
rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net <mailto:rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net> 
Subject: Re: [rancid] problem with rancid crontab

 

Good observation, I was creating it using winscp, now I nanoed it and the
log file produced:
export HOME="/"

export LANG="en_US.utf8"

export LOGNAME="rancid"

export MAILTO="root"

export OLDPWD

export PATH="/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin"

export PWD="/"

export SHELL="/bin/bash"

export SHLVL="2"

export USER="rancid"

export _="/tmp/test2.sh"

BASH=/bin/sh

BASHOPTS=cmdhist:complete_fullquote:extquote:force_fignore:hostcomplete:inte
ractive_comments:progcomp:promptvars:sourcepath

BASH_ALIASES=()

BASH_ARGC=()

BASH_ARGV=()

BASH_CMDS=()

BASH_LINENO=([0]="0")

BASH_SOURCE=([0]="/tmp/test2.sh")

BASH_VERSINFO=([0]="4" [1]="3" [2]="48" [3]="1" [4]="release"
[5]="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu")

BASH_VERSION='4.3.48(1)-release'

DIRSTACK=()

EUID=103

GROUPS=()

HOME=/

HOSTNAME=nagios

HOSTTYPE=x86_64

IFS='       

'

LANG=en_US.utf8

LOGNAME=rancid

MACHTYPE=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu

MAILTO=root

OPTERR=1

OPTIND=1

OSTYPE=linux-gnu

PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin

PIPESTATUS=([0]="0")

POSIXLY_CORRECT=y

PPID=22660

PS4='+ '

PWD=/

SHELL=/bin/bash

SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:hashall:interactive-comments:posix

SHLVL=2

TERM=dumb

UID=103

USER=rancid

_=export

/

 

From: Rancid-discuss [mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf
Of Alex DEKKER
Sent: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 5:53 PM
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Subject: Re: [rancid] problem with rancid crontab

 

On 03/10/17 15:37, Vacheslav wrote:

Well it didn’t run because when I su rancid and execute:
/root $ /tmp/test.sh

bash: /tmp/test.sh: /bin/sh^M: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

running: sh /tmp/test.sh

produces  a log file with the following content:

/root

How to fix the script?

 


If there really is a ^M on the first line of the script then that suggests
it was created with "DOS" line endings. What are you using to edit files? I
can imagine that unexpected DOS line endings will cause the various
components of RANCID to fail in unexpected ways.

alexd

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