Start by looking in the log file (usually in the rancid directory structure,
try ~/var/rancid/logs (though I think depending on how installed it may be
elsewhere). Find the latest log, look at it, see what is happening.
If it's not there (i.e. no logs) rancid is probably not starting.
Tue, Oct 16, 2018 at 03:06:53PM +, Andrew Meyer:
> Is this a perl/python or something else command? I think I found the package
> in Amazon Linux.
its a command that comes with rancid. my guess is one of
- you copied rancid from another machine and missed it
- the pre-built package you
Community;
I am new to the company, and my predecessor had setup Rancid to collect all our
configs and do the comparisons. He also used CVS to display the configs on a
webpage. I have no experience with Rancid nor CVS and I was wondering if I
could get some assistance. Here is my issue.
If you configure a login banner to FortiGates, you have to accept it before you
can login to the device. This pops up after entering the password, and you are
prompted with:
$banner-message
(Press 'a' to accept):
I successfully tested these small changes to fnlogin (version 3.8, build 3763)
The "file" command says it's an executable image, not a script.
[charlie@gitdrome ~]# file /usr/libexec/rancid/par
/usr/libexec/rancid/par: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), for GNU/Linux 2.6.32,
also, it seems you installed it under /usr/bin, best practices for rancid &
package management in general is not do this. perhaps install it under the
rancid user's homedir & make sure $HOME/bin is in your $PATH first. second
option is that you used a vendor provided rancid package instead of
Short answer, yes. But "par" is troublesome.
RANCiD needs a program by that name for "parallel command processing", but the
name conflicts with other software packages, particularly on Ubuntu linux as I
recall. I don't know if it conflicts with Amazon's linux.
I renamed it to rancid_par back
