[rancid] Getting a lot of noise related to ce_switch.log and ce_switch.log.bak

[Dan Mahoney (Gushi)]

On Tue, 11 Sep 2018, heasley wrote:

> Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 01:45:42AM -0700, Dan Mahoney (Gushi):
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm running Rancid built from freebsd packages, rancid3-3.7
>>
>> Periodically, my ASR9K's log something like this:
>>
>>   !Flash: harddisk: 24753       -rwx  800470016   Wed Sep 10 20:00:00 2014
>> VM-ASR9K-px-4.3.4.tar
>> - !Flash: harddisk: 24623       -rw-
>> ce_switch.log
>> + !Flash: harddisk: 24781       -rw-  8192017     Mon Sep 10 05:10:03 2018
>> ce_switch.log.bak
>>   !Flash: harddisk: 24688       -rw-  1048576     Thu Sep 11 02:08:46 2014
>> kd.bin_0_RSP0_CPU0
>>   !Flash: harddisk: 24625       drwx  4096        Thu Sep 11 01:38:55 2014
>> idiags
>>   !Flash: harddisk: 24626       -rw-  0           Thu Sep 11 01:40:24 2014
>> ahci.log
>>   !Flash: harddisk: 24627       drwx  4096        Thu Sep 11 02:20:32 2014
>> np
>> - !Flash: harddisk: 24783       -rw-  8192017     Fri Sep  7 08:18:57 2018
>> ce_switch.log.bak
>> + !Flash: harddisk: 24628       -rw-
>> ce_switch.log
>>   !Flash: harddisk: 6442434560 bytes total (4 GB free)
>>
>> I thought I saw something on the mailing lists that this was fixed in a
>> prior version, but I guess not.  How would I go about tweaking rancid so
>> these bits are ignored?
>
> add a filter to DirSlotN().  i see that your device is renaming files,
> causing the fileno to change.  I'll add that filter for 3.9.

Sorry to revive an old thread.

I've upgraded to 3.9, but this doesn't seem to have been fixed:

@@ -382,14 +382,14 @@ 
!Flash: harddisk: 25131       drwx  4096        Mon Jun 25 21:00:51 2012 
showtech-temp
   !Flash: harddisk: 25248       -rwx  420587520   Thu Sep 11 15:23:40 2014 
custom-smus-jtl-2014-sept.tar 
!Flash: harddisk: 25249       -rwx  452402176   Thu Sep 11 15:28:01 2014 
ASR9K-px-4.3.4.tar
   !Flash: harddisk: 25250       -rwx  800470016   Thu Sep 11 15:36:25 2014 
VM-ASR9K-px-4.3.4.tar 
- !Flash: harddisk: 25268       -rw-  8192017     Sat Jul  6 08:07:41 2019 
ce_switch.log.bak
+ !Flash: harddisk: 25135       -rw- 
ce_switch.log 
!Flash: harddisk: 25252       -rw-  1048576     Tue Mar  5 00:26:44 2019 
kd.bin_0_RSP0_CPU0
   !Flash: harddisk: 25137       drwx  4096        Fri Sep 12 01:33:47 2014 
idiags 
!Flash: harddisk: 25138       -rw-  0           Fri Sep 12 01:35:16 2014 
ahci.log
   !Flash: harddisk: 25139       drwx  4096        Thu Feb 28 20:12:29 2019 
np 
- !Flash: harddisk: 25140       -rw- 
ce_switch.log
+ !Flash: harddisk: 25269       -rw-  8192017     Tue Jul  9 04:57:56 2019 
ce_switch.log.bak
   !Flash: harddisk: 25141       -rwx  63          Sun Feb 24 22:37:37 2019 
chkfs_repair.log
   !Flash: harddisk: 25266       -rw-  40          Mon Feb 25 05:39:35 2019 
uptime_static_data
   !Flash: harddisk: 25143       -rw-

-Dan

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