Robbie,
Rancid normally runs as the rancid user. Depending on your distro and package if not installing from the source you should have a rancid user created.
Check that you have a rancid user in /etc/passwd and note it’s home directory. It’s that home directory that the .cloginrc needs to be placed/created.
You should also check /etc/rancid/rancid.conf for the BASEDIR= value as it is normally the rancid users home dir.
All the rancid commands are run as the rancid user so you would use the su – rancid to change to that user (when you do it should put you in that users home directory, if not cd ~ will).
Check the version of rancid your using and if it’s 3.x or higher check the router.db that you created to make sure it has the correct delimiter between the variables. If it’s wrong rancid-run will not pull your configs. If your running rancid version 3.x or higher and the router.db has colons : vs semi-colons ; you will need to put $config['rancid_version'] = 3;
In the config.php and rerun the command to generate your router.db again
From rancid version 3.x and up you have to use a ; vs :
Pre 3.x router.db Example:
<device_name>:<device_type>;<state>[;comments]
Post 3.x router.db Example:
<device_name>;<device_type>;<state>[;comments]
Ron Culler
CTO
Secure Designs Inc
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Robbie Wright
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 12:34 AM
To: Observium Network Observation System
Subject: Re: [Observium] RANCID integration
Thanks Adam, that seemed to get me past that step. I think it messed up the perms on something else though. I've got everything else pretty much done and I'm at this point now: trying to run
/var/lib/rancid/bin/mtlogin myrouter
throws this error: Error: /home/myloggedinuser/.cloginrc must not be world readable/writable
Its like rancid is looking for .cloginrc at the home folder of the user that installed it and not in /var/lib/rancid. Note this command works perfectly and logs into the router successfully.
/usr/lib/rancid/bin/clogin -f /var/lib/rancid/.cloginrc myrouter
The generate script works great, but we're also unable to execute this command to write the php results to the router.db file:
php /opt/observium/scripts/generate-rancid.php > /var/lib/rancid/observium/router.db
It just throws: -bash: /var/lib/rancid/observium/router.db: Permission denied
And you can't read it with sudo although it is set to root owner and group with 750.
Any insight is greatly appreciated, thank you for all of your help.
On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 4:18 PM, Adam Armstrong <adama@observium.org> wrote:
Run that as root, and it won't ask a password.
Adam.
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On 16 September 2015 12:02:33 am Robbie Wright <robbie@siuslawbroadband.com> wrote: