[rancid] Can't update router.db

[heasley]

Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 08:19:53AM -0500, Dan Letkeman:
> I'm not to familiar with using groups.  Cron job looks like this:
> 
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
> MAILTO=root
> HOME=/var/rancid
> # Run config differ every day at 00:30am
> 30 00 * * * rancid /usr/libexec/rancid/rancid-run
> 
> 
> But, I think I may have found an issue with my OS updates that might be
> part of the problem.  Running CentOS 7.  When I did a yum update I recieved
> this:
> 
> --> Finished Dependency Resolution
> Error: Package: rancid-3.2-2.el7.x86_64 (@epel)
>            Requires: perl(newgetopt.pl)
>            Removing: perl-Perl4-CoreLibs-0.001-291.el7.noarch (@base)
>                perl(newgetopt.pl)
>            Updated By: perl-Perl4-CoreLibs-0.003-7.el7.noarch (base)
>                Not found
>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem

there is only one thing that requires that lib and it is an example
script; if you are not using rtrfilter, you can force that installation.

> On Sun, Sep 24, 2017 at 7:37 PM, Piegorsch, Weylin William <weylin at bu.edu>
> wrote:
> 
> > What rancid group is your cron job passing to do-diffs?  Is it the same
> > group that you’ve modified, or a different one?  Did you update the
> > router.db file of the group that do-diffs is executing?

While rancid-run can take a rancid group as an argument, the groups normally
come from LIST_OF_GROUPS in rancid.conf.

I am more suspicious that you have more than one rancid group
(/var/rancid/<groupname>) and you've updated one but not another with the
same devices.  another possibility is that permissions are incorrect on
files/directories in the rancid group's directory, presumably:
	chown -R rancid /var/rancid

Also, look at the rancid logs for given group.

> > weylin
> >
> >
> >
> > *From: *Dan Letkeman <danletkeman at gmail.com>
> > *Date: *Friday, September 22, 2017 at 12:13
> > *To: *rancid-discuss <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
> > *Subject: *[rancid] Can't update router.db
> >
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> > I have a rancid install on centos.  It appears to all be working however,
> > if I replace the contents of the router.db file with the new devices it
> > still connects to the old ones.  I have deleted the file and created a new
> > one with only the new device ip addresses and it still continues to try and
> > get configs from the old devices???  Where is it getting this from?
> >
> >
> >
> > I am able to clogin to any of the new devices without trouble, so its not
> > a connection issue, but somehow the old router.db file is cached?
> >
> >
> >
> > drwxr-x---. 2 rancid rancid   24 Sep 22 11:11 configs
> >
> > -rw-r--r--. 1 rancid rancid 2069 Sep 22 10:48 router.db
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 10.10.10.1;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.10.10.14;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.10.10.194;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.10.10.5;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.100.104.11;mikrotik;up
> >
> > 10.100.104.12;mikrotik;up
> >
> > 10.100.207.3;mikrotik;up
> >
> > 10.100.207.4;mikrotik;up
> >
> > 10.100.4.10;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.100.4.6;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.104.0.1;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.104.1.11;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.104.12.11;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.105.50.1;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.16.0.1;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.16.1.21;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.16.1.31;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.16.12.11;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.168.0.1;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.168.1.11;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.168.1.21;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.168.1.31;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.168.1.41;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.168.1.51;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.168.12.11;cisco;up
> >
> > 10.175.0.3;mikrotik;up
> >
> > 10.175.0.4;mikrotik;up
> >
> >
> >
> > etc......
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Any help would be appreciated.
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Dan.
> >

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