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

[heasley]

Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 01:39:34AM -0700, 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:

My mistake; I made this change to ios.pm, but did not also change iosxr.pm.
I'll work on that change.