Re: [rancid] Rancid running numerous times for each group? Getting ~40 config fetcher email alerts for same group in a night

Ni Ne <[email protected]> Fri, 24 May 2019 16:44:23 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.rancid
Message-ID <CY4PR14MB12078F93633DA08311929177B5020@CY4PR14MB1207.namprd14.prod.outlook.com>
>> Running ranicd 3.8 on CentOS 6.10, using git as the repo type.
>>
>> It appears rancid is running numerous times against the same group in a given night - at least if config fetches fail.
>>
>> For instance, I have one group with some problematic devices, and I got 39 "config fetcher" emails for that same group. Looking at logs, it appears rancid is parsing every group approximately the same number of times.
>>
>> There is only one cronjob that kicks off rancid on the entire system:
>>
>> * 0 * * * /usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-run

> man 5 crontab

> min hr dom mon dow cmd

That looks right to me. Should kick off every night at midnight. Which it's doing. An entire run takes about 4 hours or so. All logs/emails from a nightly run arrive within that time-frame - 12am - 4am.

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