[rancid] Fw: 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 16:50:47 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.network.rancid
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>> >> 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.

> no, its running every minute (60 times) at midnight.

Oh brother, can't believe I missed that. Thank you!!!

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