[rancid] Need help: rancid-run deleting all configs from CSV
Kevin Eves
Hello everyone. I’m probably the newest member of the list as I am just getting started with Rancid and I could use some assistance.
I’m trying to get Rancid set up on a CentOS 5.2 server. This is now my second attempt as I blew away the first setup to try to start over when things got too messed up.
I followed the instructions from http://www.linuxhomenetworking.com/wiki/index.php/Quick_HOWTO_:_Ch1_:_Network_Backups_With_Rancid using the newest alpha version of Rancid: rancid-2.3.2a9.tar.gz. The only change was the directory location of /opt/rancid instead of /usr/local/rancid. I also set up cvsweb to make it easy to browse the configs.
Rancid will query the routers successfully and dump the configs into /opt/rancid/var/networking/configs, but in the /opt/rancid/var/CVS/networking/configs there is nothing except ./Attic because rancid-run deletes them all after it puts them in. It works for router.db and will notify me of changes to that, but it doesn’t work for any of the router config files.
Furthermore, every time rancid-run runs, it also emails me this:
The following routers have not been successfully contacted for more than 24 hours.
-rw-r----- 1 rancid netadm 24234 Mar 4 01:06 192.168.1.1
-rw-r----- 1 rancid netadm 2744 Mar 4 01:06 192.168.1.254
… and so on for all of them.
I’ve looked through the FAQ, readme, man pages, and lots of web searches and I can’t figure it out.
Below I’ve put all the information that I think is necessary to solve the problem, but if there is anything else that is needed, just let me know and I’ll add that later.
If someone can help me figure out this strange behavior, I would be very grateful. If it turns out to be a bug, I’ll submit a report.
Thank you in advance.
Kevin Eves
router.db:
192.168.1.1:cisco:up
192.168.1.254:cisco:up
Public.ip.1.removed:cisco:up
Public.ip.2.removed:cisco:up
Public.ip.3.removed:cisco:up
Public.ip.4.removed:cisco:up
Public.ip.5.removed:cisco:up
Log example:
starting: Wed Mar 4 14:01:01 EST 2009
cvs status: use `cvs add' to create an entry for 192.168.1.1
cvs add: Re-adding file `192.168.1.1' (in place of dead revision 1.2).
cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently
cvs added missing router 192.168.1.1
cvs status: use `cvs add' to create an entry for 192.168.1.254
cvs add: Re-adding file `192.168.1.254' (in place of dead revision 1.2).
cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently
cvs added missing router 192.168.1.254
cvs status: use `cvs add' to create an entry for Public.ip.1.removed
cvs add: Re-adding file `Public.ip.1.removed' (in place of dead revision 1.2).
cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently
cvs added missing router Public.ip.1.removed
cvs status: use `cvs add' to create an entry for Public.ip.2.removed
cvs add: Re-adding file `Public.ip.2.removed' (in place of dead revision 1.2).
cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently
cvs added missing router Public.ip.2.removed
cvs status: use `cvs add' to create an entry for Public.ip.3.removed
cvs add: Re-adding file `Public.ip.3.removed' (in place of dead revision 1.2).
cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently
cvs added missing router Public.ip.3.removed
cvs status: use `cvs add' to create an entry for Public.ip.4.removed
cvs add: Re-adding file `Public.ip.4.removed' (in place of dead revision 1.2).
cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently
cvs added missing router Public.ip.4.removed
cvs status: use `cvs add' to create an entry for Public.ip.5.removed
cvs add: Re-adding file `Public.ip.5.removed' (in place of dead revision 1.2).
cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently
cvs added missing router Public.ip.5.removed
cvs remove: removed `Public.ip.5.removed'
Deleted Public.ip.5.removed
cvs remove: removed `Public.ip.4.removed'
Deleted Public.ip.4.removed
cvs remove: removed `Public.ip.1.removed'
Deleted Public.ip.1.removed
cvs remove: removed `192.168.1.254'
Deleted 192.168.1.254
cvs remove: removed `Public.ip.2.removed'
Deleted Public.ip.2.removed
cvs remove: removed `Public.ip.3.removed'
Deleted Public.ip.3.removed
cvs remove: removed `192.168.1.1'
Deleted 192.168.1.1
Trying to get all of the configs.
All routers sucessfully completed.
cvs diff: Diffing .
cvs diff: Diffing configs
cvs commit: Examining .
cvs commit: Examining configs
ending: Wed Mar 4 14:01:43 EST 2009
And then when I look in cvsweb at one of the configs in the Attic it says this, showing that it created the file and then deleted it seconds later:
Keyword substitution: o
Default branch: MAIN
Revision 1.2
Wed Mar 4 18:52:34 2009 UTC (29 minutes, 34 seconds ago) by rancid
Branches: MAIN
CVS tags: HEAD
FILE REMOVED
Changes since revision 1.1: +0 -0 lines
deleted router
Revision 1.1: download - view: text, markup, annotated - select for diffs
Wed Mar 4 18:52:27 2009 UTC (29 minutes, 41 seconds ago) by rancid
Branches: MAIN
new router