[rancid] PAR Not Changing Process Counts

[Piegorsch, Weylin William]

I worked with Heasley (very) sporadically over the past few years on this.  Short version: control-rancid has around line 122:


if [ -z "$ENVFILE" ] ; then

    ENVFILE="${prefix}/etc/rancid.conf"

fi

if [ -f "$ENVFILE" ] ; then

    . $ENVFILE

fi


On my setup, ENVFILE didn’t exist, so the '-z' flag caught and tried to set it.  only problem? ${prefix} also doesn’t exist, so it was trying to find /etc/rancid.conf which yet again also doesn’t exist.

This was all supposed to have been properly set with autoconf during installation.  Near as we can tell, something about my installation made that not stick.  As this is an old problem, an old version of code, and with my fix there are no other identified problems, we didn’t pursue it further.  I manually added prefix=<rancid home directory> just after the copyright notice. This is a solution unique to my setup, but my system now works.





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From: Piegorsch, Weylin William <weylin at bu.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2019 7:15 AM
To: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: PAR Not Changing Process Counts

Hello,

I have PAR_COUNT set to 100 (and uncommented, and “export”ed) in ~rancid/etc/rancid.conf.  However, I notice that there’s never more than 5 devices being archived at any given time.  My system load is low, and this server is dedicated exclusively to rancid, so it’s unclear to me why I wouldn’t be able to do more at once, or how to troubleshoot?

I’m on rancid 3.4.1.

weylin
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