Mailing List Archive: false "changes in XXX routers" reports

false "changes in XXX routers" reports

yuvalba at netvision

Oct 17, 2003, 3:55 AM

Post #1 of 6 (1593 views)

Hi,

I'm getting flase reports of changes in router.db file, such as:

Routers changed to up:
router1:cisco
router2:cisco
router3:cisco

Added routers:
router1:cisco
router2:cisco
router3:cisco

Deleted routers:
router1:cisco
router2:cisco
router3:cisco

while there was no change to the routers list file.
any idea why this happens?

--Yuval

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Oct 20, 2003, 8:14 AM

Post #2 of 6 (1514 views)

On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 01:55:11PM +0200, Yuval Ben-Ari wrote:
> I'm getting flase reports of changes in router.db file, such as:

Rancid remembers which routers were up or down in rancid/$GROUP/routers.up
& .down. If this file is being deleted or can't be written to or
created by the user running rancid, you might get these problems.
--asp

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yuvalba at netvision

Oct 21, 2003, 6:48 AM

Post #3 of 6 (1525 views)

thanks,

rancid is run as cron job of user "rancid" whom has permissions to write
to the files.
also, the problem happens randomly and I can't find any pattern here.

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heas at shrubbery

Oct 21, 2003, 6:58 AM

Post #4 of 6 (1516 views)

Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:48:02PM +0200, Yuval Ben-Ari:
> thanks,
>
> rancid is run as cron job of user "rancid" whom has permissions to write
> to the files.
> also, the problem happens randomly and I can't find any pattern here.

iirc, when control_rancid runs, it actually uses temporary files which are
renamed to routers.{up,down}. so, the directory must also be writable.

your safest bet/fix is likely;
# cd ~rancid
# chown -R rancid .

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yuvalba at netvision

Oct 22, 2003, 12:16 AM

Post #5 of 6 (1519 views)

done
will have to see ......

> -----Original Message-----
> From: john heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 4:59 PM
> To: Yuval Ben-Ari
> Cc: Andrew Partan; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: false "changes in XXX routers" reports
>
>
> Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 04:48:02PM +0200, Yuval Ben-Ari:
> > thanks,
> >
> > rancid is run as cron job of user "rancid" whom has
> permissions to write
> > to the files.
> > also, the problem happens randomly and I can't find any
> pattern here.
>
> iirc, when control_rancid runs, it actually uses temporary
> files which are
> renamed to routers.{up,down}. so, the directory must also be
> writable.
>
> your safest bet/fix is likely;
> # cd ~rancid
> # chown -R rancid .

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Nov 3, 2003, 7:15 AM

Post #6 of 6 (1522 views)

On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 01:51:46PM +0200, Yuval Ben-Ari wrote:
> problem returned:

This code doing this is in bin/control_rancid. I think the only
assumption that the code makes is that the user running rancid has
all of the read & write permissions needed for the files & directories
the code touches. It would be real useful to get additional eyes
looking at this to see what else might fail.
--asp