In this post I want to walk though the steps to install Rancid on CentOS 7 minimal. Rancid is a great tool to help monitor a device configuration for any changes. It also keeps track of them by using CVS (Concurrent Version System) for backups, so you can go back and compare versions or revert to a previous configuration. Rancid supports multiple hardware from Cisco, HP, Dell, Juniper and more. This is all open-source so you can create custom scripts or add commands to really make this a personal repository that fits your company. During this install guide several things are required when we install Rancid, I have tired to make this as simple as possible but its not just a type and watch it install. You have to customize some of the scripts to make Rancid work like it should. Read it though and follow along.
So I’m already assuming that you have CentOS 7 minimal installed, with connection to the internet, and have just the root account with a password. You can pick up the latest CentOS at http://www.centos.org/
Login as the root account and let’s update this thing and accept any updates before we do anything else.
yum update
We now need to install all the prerequisites needed for Rancid and some other tools we’ll need for troubleshooting (if needed)
yum install nano wget ftp telnet mariadb-server mariadb perl tcl expect gcc cvs rcs httpd autoconf php-common php-gd php-pear php-pecl-memcache php-mysql php-xml mod_ssl MySQL-python
Since we installed Apache we will want to change the firewall rules on our system to allow HTTP and (HTTPS if we want it)
Allow HTTP:
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http
Allow HTTPS:
firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https
Reload the Firewall to save changes
firewall-cmd --reload
Enable the Apache service to start on bootup and let’s start it up for the first time.
systemctl enable httpd.service systemctl start httpd.service
After you enable Apache you should see a sample webpage from Apache when you browse to your server’s IP address with a browser. We now need to add a group for the rancid user.
groupadd netadm
Next we will create a user called rancid and put this user under the group we just created which is netadm. We will also put in the home directory for this rancid user.
useradd -g netadm -c "Networking Backups" -d /home/rancid rancid
Let’s be a little organized and create a directory to put all of our installation files. Once created let’s change directories to that tar folder we just created.
mkdir /home/rancid/tar
Move to the tar folder
cd /home/rancid/tar/
We will download the latest version of Rancid which at the time of this writing is 3.1(3-1-16) UPDATE: Current version is 3.4.1 I updated the download paths below, 🙂
wget ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-3.4.1.tar.gz
Extract the tar ball we just downloaded:
tar -zxvf rancid-3.4.1.tar.gz
Move into the rancid-3.1 folder:
cd rancid-3.4.1
Run/type in the following followed by enter. This get’s Rancid ready for install.
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/rancid
After all of the output clears run the install.
make install
Now let’s copy and modify some permissions
cp cloginrc.sample /home/rancid/.cloginrc chmod 0640 /home/rancid/.cloginrc chown -R rancid:netadm /home/rancid/.cloginrc chown -R rancid:netadm /usr/local/rancid/ chmod 775 /usr/local/rancid/
We have to edit the rancid configuration file and put our devices in groups. Find “list of rancid groups” and uncomment it. Type in the groups you would like, for example (Routers Switches)
nano /usr/local/rancid/etc/rancid.conf ... # list of rancid groups LIST_OF_GROUPS="Routers Switches" # more groups... #LIST_OF_GROUPS="$LIST_OF_GROUPS noc billybobisp" # ...
Switch to the Rancid user account
su -rancid
Run the following, this creates a CVS Repository with the groups you just entered in the List of Groups.
/usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-cvs No conflicts created by this import cvs checkout: Updating Routers Directory /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/Routers/configs added to the repository cvs commit: Examining configs cvs add: scheduling file `router.db' for addition cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently RCS file: /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/Routers/router.db,v done Checking in router.db; /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/Routers/router.db,v -- router.db initial revision: 1.1 done No conflicts created by this import cvs checkout: Updating Switches Directory /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/Switches/configs added to the repository cvs commit: Examining configs cvs add: scheduling file `router.db' for addition cvs add: use 'cvs commit' to add this file permanently RCS file: /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/Switches/router.db,v done Checking in router.db; /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/Switches/router.db,v -- router.db initial revision: 1.1 done [rancid@rancid ~]$
After the command runs logout of Rancid user and go back to root. Move back to TAR folder.
cd /home/rancid/tar/
Next we will want to download ViewVC and as of this writing the latest the version is 1.1.23.(3-1-16) UPDATE: Current Version of ViewVC is 1.1.24, I updated the paths below, 🙂
wget http://viewvc.tigris.org/files/documents/3330/49471/viewvc-1.1.24.tar.gz
Extract the tarball
tar -zxvf viewvc-1.1.24.tar.gz
Move to the ViewVC folder and run the installer, accept the defaults.
cd viewvc-1.1.24 ./viewvc-install
We now need to modify the ViewVC configuration file, basically telling ViewVC where the CVS repo is.
nano /usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/viewvc.conf
Find the following and edit as shown below:
... ## Example: ## cvs_roots = cvsroot: /opt/cvs/repos1, ## anotherroot: /usr/local/cvs/repos2 ## #cvs_roots = cvs: ## svn_roots: Specifies each of the Subversion roots (repositories) on ## your system and assigns names to them. Each root should be given by ... ## Example: ## root_parents = /opt/svn: svn, ## /opt/cvs: cvs ## root_parents = /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS : cvs ## default_root: This is the name of the default root. Valid names ... ## Example: ## rcs_dir = /usr/bin/ ## rcs_dir = /usr/local/bin ## cvsnt: Location of cvsnt program. ViewVC can use CVSNT (www.cvsnt.org) ... ## use_rcsparse: Use the rcsparse Python module to retrieve CVS ## repository information instead of invoking rcs utilities [EXPERIMENTAL] ## use_rcsparse = 1 ...
We need to copy some files and change permissions for ViewVC.
cp /usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/bin/cgi/*.cgi /var/www/cgi-bin chmod +x /var/www/cgi-bin/*.cgi chown apache:apache /var/www/cgi-bin/*.cgi
For this example we will use HTTP for ViewVC, although you could use HTTPS just have to modify the Apache (HTTPD file)
nano /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
I put the following at the bottom of the HTTPD file
# Custom Rancid Config
<VirtualHost *:80>
DocumentRoot /var/www
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/var/www/cgi-bin"
ScriptAlias /viewvc /var/www/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi
ScriptAlias /query /var/www/cgi-bin/query.cgi
<Directory "/var/www/cgi-bin">
AllowOverride None
Options None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
We are almost done, we now need to turn on Mariadb which ViewVC uses, and start up the secure installation. (Accept all defaults and type in a root password for MariaDB.
systemctl enable mariadb systemctl start mariadb sudo mysql_secure_installation
Go back into MariaDB and create a ViewVC user and use the password you just created.
mysql -u root -p
Enter the following: (Replace YourPassowrdHere with something else)
CREATE USER 'VIEWVC'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YourPasswordHere'; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'VIEWVC'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; quit
Make the ViewVC Database with the username and password you just created. (Accept the defaults)
/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/bin/make-database MySQL Hostname (leave blank for default): MySQL Port (leave blank for default): MySQL User: VIEWVC MySQL Password: YourPasswordHere ViewVC Database Name [default: ViewVC]: Database created successfully. Don't forget to configure the [cvsdb] section of your viewvc.conf file.
Go back to MariaDB (MySQL) with the root password
mysql -u root -p
Create a Read-Only account for ViewVC on the MySQL database. (Replace YourROPassowrdHere with something else)
CREATE USER 'VIEWVCRO'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'YourROPasswordHere'; GRANT SELECT ON ViewVC.* TO 'VIEWVCRO'@'localhost' WITH GRANT OPTION; FLUSH PRIVILEGES; quit
We now need to configure the ViewVC configuration file with the user names and passwords to that we created in MySQL.
nano /usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/viewvc.conf
Find cvsdb and change it to something like this:
##--------------------------------------------------------------------------- [cvsdb] ## enabled: Enable database integration feature. ## enabled = 1 ## host: Database hostname. Leave unset to use a local Unix socket ## connection. ## host = localhost ## post: Database listening port. ## port = 3306 ## database_name: ViewVC database name. ## database_name = ViewVC ## user: Username of user with read/write privileges to the database ## specified by the 'database_name' configuration option. ## user = VIEWVC ## passwd: Password of user with read/write privileges to the database ## specified by the 'database_name' configuration option. ## passwd = YourPasswordHere ## readonly_user: Username of user with read privileges to the database ## specified by the 'database_name' configuration option. ## readonly_user = VIEWVCRO ## readonly_passwd: Password of user with read privileges to the database ## specified by the 'database_name' configuration option. ## readonly_passwd = YourROPasswordHere
Run the following command to build the Database.
/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/bin/cvsdbadmin rebuild /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/CVSROOT/
Reboot the server once online you should be able view the Repository at http://rancid-servicer-ip/viewvc
If you see the groups that we created we looking good so far. To finish this installation off we need to setup Rancid to send emails. Usually you have to add the Rancid to the allowed senders list on your email infrastructure. Rancid uses aliases to send emails we need to edit the aliases file.
nano /etc/aliases
Depending on your infrastructure you might have different teams of people for different equipment that rancid is monitoring. Or you are running one-man-shop either way you can specify. In this example I’m using only one email address and created a new aliases called Rancid all of this is at the bottom of the aliases file.
# Custom Rancid Configuration (Put an Email Here) rancid: emailaddress@goeshere.com # Custom Rancid Configuration rancid-admin-Routers: rancid rancid-Routers: rancid rancid-admin-Switches: rancid rancid-Switches: rancid
Depending on what you created in your List of Groups in the rancid configuration file you might have more or less. (In this example we just created Routers and Switches) We must specify these in the aliases file otherwise Rancid wont send emails for these groups. Once we are done editing you want to let our Rancid box know about the new aliases we just created. Type in the following command to update.
newaliases
In this example postfix is already installed so we just need to edit the postfix configuration file.
nano /etc/postfix/main.cf
Find and uncomment “relayhost” and type either the domain name (if you have MX records) the FQDN or IP address of your email system.
relayhost = mycompanydomain.com relayhost = email.mycompanydomain.com #relayhost = [mailserver.isp.tld] #relayhost = uucphost #relayhost = [an.ip.add.ress]
Start up posfix and enable it on boot
systemctl start postfix systemctl enable postfix
Finished! We have just installed Rancid along with made some helpful tweaks like getting an upfront web page to view the configurations instead of CLI as well as setting up Rancid to email us if anything changes or if there are issues with connecting to any equipment. I’ll put the brakes here and in the next post we will go over how to customize rancid to log into devices and grab configurations. I hope this install guide is helpful and let me know if you have any questions. Enjoy New Year! 🙂
If you can’t wait for me then you can check Shrubbery at http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/
Read the README file once you download Rancid.
You can also check threads from Rancid Discussions at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/rancid/
This was a great how to and saved me a lot of time! Thank you
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Glad it worked out!
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Question, does it work for you without the Expect patch?
You have no hangs like mentioned in
http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/EXPECTBUG
?
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In this version I’m using Rancid 3.1 with Expect version 5.45. I have not experienced any of the hangs like mentioned above. The TCL version I’m using is 8.5.13. Maybe its fixed?
Just in case if anyone wants to check:
To check the Expect version run: expect -v
To check TCL version go type tclsh followed by typing info patchlevel
Thanks for bringing it up 🙂
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First off thanks so much for the detail you put into these instructions. I am hoping though, you might be able to help with an error I’m getting. I went through your list without incident until the first reboot and attempting to browse to rancid-ip/viewvc which returns a traceback error.
Python Traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/viewvc.py", line 4848, in main
request.run_viewvc()
File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/viewvc.py", line 402, in run_viewvc
self.view_func(self)
File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/viewvc.py", line 2202, in view_roots
allroots = list_roots(request)
File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/viewvc.py", line 4698, in list_roots
cfg.utilities, cfg.options.use_rcsparse)
File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/vclib/ccvs/init.py", line 56, in CVSRepository
rootpath = canonicalize_rootpath(rootpath)
File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/vclib/ccvs/init.py", line 17, in canonicalize_rootpath
assert os.path.isabs(rootpath)
AssertionError
I’ve tried googling and found only one forum poster with an identical error.. he says that he resolved his by modifying ‘rcs_dir = /usr/local/bin’ to ‘rcs_dir = /usr/bin’
Which I did after LS’ing and finding out that /usr/local/bin was empty. However after another reboot the error persists.
Any ideas would be awesome.. this is my second attempt at a successful config and I’m getting frustrated.
Thanks!
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Hey Ben,
Usually this is some type of permission issue with either apache or the rancid user. You may want to also post your problem at http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/rancid/ might get someone better than me 🙂
Check the areas where you had to modify permissions like the cgi-bin folder (Apache should be the owner here)
[root@rancid ~]# ls -l /var/www/cgi-bin/total 8
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 apache apache 1782 Jan 1 05:55 query.cgi
-rwxr-xr-x. 1 apache apache 1781 Jan 1 05:55 viewvc.cgi
Also what Python version are you running? In this example it was:
[root@rancid ~]# python -VPython 2.7.5
Check to make sure you have RCS installed:
[root@rancid ~]# yum install rcsLoaded plugins: fastestmirror
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
* base: mirror.raystedman.net
* extras: mirror.netdepot.com
* updates: mirrors.kernel.org
Package rcs-5.9.0-5.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
I would also try to run rancid manually and have it connect to a device to see if you can get diffs just in CLI. That would help because then its likely something wrong with just Apache/ViewVC. What I’ll do is do a fresh install of Rancid on Centos 7 and see if I run into this problem, but I won’t be able to really look at until next week sometime.
Good Luck and don’t get too frustrated 😉
Ryan
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Thanks Ryan.. Actually what I wound up doing was deleting the vhd and starting over from scratch with your page. I actually have it all working save one thing.. Rancid actually creating the config files. My boss is pushing DR and I won;t have a whole lot of time left in the near future to work on this so thats why I decided to start all over. But yeah I can run clogin x.x.x.x and end up with a responsive ssh prompt to that switch. But rancid-run generates nothing at all, even an empty log file.
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I figured it out Ryan. The router.db files formatting needs semi colons instead of colons.
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What are you using Maria-db for?
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[rancid@raancid root]$ bin/clogin 192.168.1.1
bash: bin/clogin: Permission denied
view error help me 😦
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It just worked with RHEL 6.5. After many attempts with other guides this one was just amazing. Thanks Ryan.
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No Problem 🙂
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This is a fantastic guide. One of the best I have read in a long time. Thank you.
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Hi,
Fantastic guide to install rancid and view VC. I am fairly new to linux and was able to set this up readin this guide.
Well. now ihave certain devices belonging to cisco-sb type and trying to set that up i had to play a lot with the software and configs. I was able to set it up finally. Now i have quite a few revisions in ViewVC. Is there a way to clear all the revisions so that when i run ‘rancid-run’ next, the first revision i.e. 1.1 should have all devices config in it.
I guess creating a new database should do it but want to get expert opinion. Please let me know. Any help would be much appreciated.
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Hi
I am getting this error
“OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS'” while running viewvc on browser..
directory permissions are,
drwxrwxr-x. 4 rancid netadm 4096 Nov 6 09:02 CVS
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks
Abhinav
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Hey Abhinav,
Permissions look right as I just checked on my sample box but it just sounds like some type of permission issue It might be something with the viewvc.conf file. Can you verify that you made the correct changes as what I have outlined below. Try that. Ryan
Find the following and edit as shown below:
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Hi,
I have the same problem as Abhinav. I’ve edited the viewvc.conf file as shown in the guide. I’ve also tried to use cvs_root and default_root instead of root_parents and it didn’t work either.
What else can be the problem ?
Cheers,
Alex
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Hey Alex,
What is your permissions on that directory “/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS”? This is likely the issue, I can reproduce the issue if “Others/All Users” don’t have permission to read and or execute the CVS folder.
Here is the error I get if CVS is not readable to All users does that match what you have?
An Exception Has OccurredPython Traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/viewvc.py", line 4848, in main
request.run_viewvc()
File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/viewvc.py", line 402, in run_viewvc
self.view_func(self)
File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/viewvc.py", line 2201, in view_roots
expand_root_parents(request.cfg)
File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/viewvc.py", line 4720, in expand_root_parents
roots = vclib.ccvs.expand_root_parent(pp)
File "/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/vclib/ccvs/init.py", line 32, in expand_root_parent
subpaths = os.listdir(parent_path)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS'
Here is the output of my machine, notice the CVS folder permissions? I don’t have read and execute permission to all users.
[root@rancid ~]# ls -l /usr/local/rancid/var/
total 12
drwxrwx---. 5 rancid netadm 67 Sep 23 18:36 CVS
drwxr-x---. 2 rancid netadm 4096 Sep 23 19:00 logs
drwxr-x---. 4 rancid netadm 4096 Sep 23 19:00 Routers
drwxr-x---. 4 rancid netadm 4096 Sep 23 19:00 Switches
Change it by running this command.
chmod 775 /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/Verify:
ls -l /usr/local/rancid/var/
total 12
drwxrwxr-x. 5 rancid netadm 67 Sep 23 18:36 CVS
drwxr-x---. 2 rancid netadm 4096 Sep 23 19:00 logs
drwxr-x---. 4 rancid netadm 4096 Sep 23 19:00 Routers
drwxr-x---. 4 rancid netadm 4096 Sep 23 19:00 Switches
Hope that Helps.
Ryan
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Hi Ryan,
Thank you for your answer. The thing is that my CVS folder is already in 775 mode, that’s why I don’t understand this error.
Do you have any idea ?
Cheers,
Alex
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Hey Alex,
Does your error match what I had above?
Ryan
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Hi Ryan,
Sorry for the late answer.
The error I get is the following:
An Exception Has Occurred
Python Traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/lib/viewvc.py”, line 4855, in main
request.run_viewvc()
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/lib/viewvc.py”, line 408, in run_viewvc
self.view_func(self)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/lib/viewvc.py”, line 2207, in view_roots
expand_root_parents(request.cfg)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/lib/viewvc.py”, line 4727, in expand_root_parents
roots = vclib.ccvs.expand_root_parent(pp)
File “/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/lib/vclib/ccvs/init.py”, line 32, in expand_root_parent
subpaths = os.listdir(parent_path)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: ‘/var/rancid/CVS’
Cheers,
Alex
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Hey Alex,
No problem hope your holiday was good 😉
So I noticed that you might have installed ViewVC a different way then I did in the above post, not sure if that has anything to do with or not but it might. Your ViewVC is located under /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/ where in this post ViewVC is installed under usr/local/.
Can you run a sanity check on ViewVC? (This runs a small web server on the system)
/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/bin/standalone.py -r /usr/local/rancid/CVSOn your system it might be:
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/viewvc/bin/ standalone.py -r /usr/local/rancid/CVSDoes that say any errors?
Should report back as saying:
server ready at http://localhost:49152/viewvcI would just do a curl to see the HTML document
curl http://localhost:49152/viewvcThe output should display HTML code if it is working.
Hope that Helps,
Ryan
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Ryan,
I solved my problem (finally !!). I have SELinux enable on my server, I had to change the security context of my folder (using the command chcon).
Cheers,
Alex
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Hey Alex,
Glad you got it working and thanks for posting back your solution.
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Hi,
thank you for the precise details you have listed !! its hard work.
i have set it up on centos 7 and works well. pulled the devices, i can see the configs in viewvc. but the mail it sends, it sends to:
rancid-switches@host-192-168-10-161.localdomain &
rancid-rtr-fw@host-192-168-10-161.localdomain
rather than sending it to he email ID which was defined in /etc/aliases. any idea why ?
my files have configuration as below:
/etc/aliases
Custom Rancid Configuration (Put an Email Here)
rancid: <i.have.my.emailaddress.here>@domain.com
Custom Rancid Configuration
rancid-admin-rtr-fw: rancid
rancid-rtr-fw: rancid
rancid-admin-switches: rancid
rancid-switches: rancid
My /etc/postfix/main.cf is:
#relayhost = $mydomain
#relayhost = [gateway.my.domain]
#relayhost = [mailserver.isp.tld]
#relayhost = uucphost
relayhost = 10.20.30.40
where can i check mail logs etc to know where the problem is? please help.
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Hey Night-Fury,
That actually looks right to me, rancid modifies the TO field in the email header but if you look in the log file located at /var/log/maillog you’ll see that the message does get forwarded. In this example (real-email@example.com) is the email address I typed in the aliases file to send the email messages to. You may have to change a setting in your email system to allow this message to send.
[root@rancid log]# tail -n 9 maillogJan 22 19:03:07 rancid postfix/pickup[5922]: 0C8708026C6B: uid=1000 from=
Jan 22 19:03:07 rancid postfix/cleanup[6647]: 0C8708026C6B: message-id=20160123020307.0C8708026C6B@rancid.example.com
Jan 22 19:03:07 rancid postfix/qmgr[1723]: 0C8708026C6B: from=rancid@rancid.example.com, size=1483, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 22 19:03:07 rancid postfix/cleanup[6647]: 1DFC780BE715: message-id=20160123020307.0C8708026C6B@rancid.example.com
Jan 22 19:03:07 rancid postfix/qmgr[1723]: 1DFC780BE715: from=rancid@rancid.example.com, size=1665, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 22 19:03:07 rancid postfix/local[6655]: 0C8708026C6B: to=rancid-Switches@rancid.example.com, orig_to=, relay=local, delay=0.11, delays=0.06/0.04/0/0.02, dsn=2.0.0, status=sent (forwarded as 1DFC780BE715)
Jan 22 19:03:07 rancid postfix/qmgr[1723]: 0C8708026C6B: removed
Jan 22 19:03:07 rancid postfix/smtp[6658]: 1DFC780BE715: to=real-email@example.com, orig_to=, relay=email.example.com[192.168.2.25]:25, delay=0.74, delays=0.01/0.02/0/0.71, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 20160123020307.0C8708026C6B@rancid.example.com [InternalId=322292] Queued mail for delivery)
Jan 22 19:03:07 rancid postfix/qmgr[1723]: 1DFC780BE715: removed
[root@rancid log]#
Hope that Helps,
Ryan
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hey Ryan, thanks for getting back on this. I do have similar logs:
[root@host-192-168-10-161 log]# tail -n 9 maillog
Jan 22 14:18:54 localhost postfix/postfix-script[1690]: starting the Postfix mail system
Jan 22 14:18:54 localhost postfix/master[1716]: daemon started — version 2.10.1, configuration /etc/postfix
Jan 23 10:33:17 localhost postfix/postfix-script[1787]: starting the Postfix mail system
Jan 23 10:33:17 localhost postfix/master[1811]: daemon started — version 2.10.1, configuration /etc/postfix
Jan 23 17:33:17 localhost postfix/pickup[21220]: DEC68243416E: uid=0 from=
Jan 23 17:33:17 localhost postfix/cleanup[22244]: DEC68243416E: message-id=20160123120317.DEC68243416E@host-192-168-10-161.localdomain
Jan 23 17:33:17 localhost postfix/qmgr[1821]: DEC68243416E: from=root@host-192-168-10-161.localdomain, size=47328, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
Jan 23 17:33:18 localhost postfix/smtp[22246]: DEC68243416E: to=my.email@my.domain.com, relay=10.20.30.40[10.20.30.40]:25, delay=0.95, delays=0.06/0.14/0.01/0.74, dsn=2.6.0, status=sent (250 2.6.0 20160123120317.DEC68243416E@host-192-168-10-161.localdomain [InternalId=53596896886795, Hostname=MAIL.SERVER.FQDN] Queued mail for delivery)
Jan 23 17:33:18 localhost postfix/qmgr[1821]: DEC68243416E: removed
that means my mail server is messing with the emails. any pointer on what is to be changes in mail system?
My mail logs, however, do not show anywhere that the mail is being sent to rancid-Switches@rancid.example.com etc. You think its a problem?
-thanks
night-fury
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Hey Night-Fury,
Each mail system varies sometimes there are called trusted hosts or relays. The mail system has to trust rancid in sending emails. In your log it says queued mail for delivery so the message was sent. It is likely something on your email system.
Good Luck.
Ryan
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Okay, will check what can be done at the exchange end. Thank you for all your help 🙂
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Hi I ran the last cmd and this is the out put. Can you help
[root@rancid ~]# /usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/bin/cvsdbadmin rebuild /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/CVSROOT/
Using repository root `/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS’
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/bin/cvsdbadmin”, line 175, in
db = cvsdb.ConnectDatabase(cfg)
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/cvsdb.py”, line 904, in ConnectDatabase
db.Connect()
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/cvsdb.py”, line 59, in Connect
table_list = self.GetTableList()
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/cvsdb.py”, line 177, in GetTableList
cursor.execute(sql)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py”, line 174, in execute
self.errorhandler(self, exc, value)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py”, line 36, in defaulterrorhandler
raise errorclass, errorvalue
_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1046, ‘No database selected’)
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Hey Adam, I would check your viewvc.conf file and make sure you put the database you are connecting into the view.conf file in my example my database is ViewVC. The error message basically says there is no database selected when you run the rebuild script.
Configure the ViewVC configuration file
nano /usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/viewvc.confLook for database_name =
Type in your database to connect ViewVC.
Hope that Helps,
Ryan
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Hi Ryan,
I checked everything in all the config files. In the end I deleted the VM are started again from scratch, sadly i got the end with the same error. Fancy building me a quick one and exporting it ti ovf/ova?
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Hey Adam,
Could you post your viewvc.conf file?
Ryan
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This is my error below.
root@hmsgrancid viewvc-1.1.23]# /usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/bin/cvsdbadmin rebuild /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/CVSROOT/
Using repository root `/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS’
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/bin/cvsdbadmin”, line 175, in
db = cvsdb.ConnectDatabase(cfg)
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/cvsdb.py”, line 904, in ConnectDatabase
db.Connect()
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/cvsdb.py”, line 59, in Connect
table_list = self.GetTableList()
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.23/lib/cvsdb.py”, line 177, in GetTableList
cursor.execute(sql)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/cursors.py”, line 174, in execute
self.errorhandler(self, exc, value)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py”, line 36, in defaulterrorhandler
raise errorclass, errorvalue
_mysql_exceptions.OperationalError: (1046, ‘No database selected’)
This is the viewvc.config file
##—————————————————————————
##
Configuration file for ViewVC
##
Information on ViewVC is located at the following web site:
http://viewvc.org/
##
##—————————————————————————
THE FORMAT OF THIS CONFIGURATION FILE
##
This file is delineated by sections, specified in [brackets]. Within
each section, are a number of configuration settings. These settings
take the form of: name = value. Values may be continued on the
following line by indenting the continued line.
##
WARNING: Indentation always means continuation. Name=value lines
should always start in column zero.
##
Comments should always start in column zero, and are identified
with “#”. By default each of the configuration items is
commented out, with the default value of the option shown.
You’ll need to remove the ‘#’ that precedes configuration
options whose values you wish to modify.
##
Certain configuration settings may have multiple values. These should
be separated by a comma. The settings where this is allowed are noted
below. Any other setting that requires special syntax is noted at that
setting.
##
SOME TERMINOLOGY USED HEREIN
##
“root” – This is a CVS or Subversion repository. For Subversion, the
meaning is pretty clear, as the virtual, versioned directory tree
stored inside a Subversion repository looks nothing like the actual
tree visible with shell utilities that holds the repository. For
CVS, this is more confusing, because CVS’s repository layout mimics
(actually, defines) the layout of the stuff housed in the repository.
But a CVS repository can be identified by the presence of a CVSROOT
subdirectory in its root directory.
##
“module” – A module is a top-level subdirectory of a root, usually
associated with the concept of a single “project” among many housed
within a single repository.
##
##
BASIC VIEWVC CONFIGURATION HINTS
##
While ViewVC has quite a few configuration options, you generally
only need to change a small subset of them to get your ViewVC
installation working properly. Here are some options that we
recommend you pay attention to. Of course, don’t try to change the
options here — do so in the relevant section of the configuration
file below.
For correct operation, you will probably need to change the following
configuration variables:
cvs_roots (for CVS)
svn_roots (for Subversion)
root_parents (for CVS or Subversion)
default_root
root_as_url_component
rcs_dir
mime_types_files
the many options in the [utilities] section
It is usually desirable to change the following variables:
address
forbidden
To optimize delivery of ViewVC static files:
docroot
To customize the display of ViewVC for your site:
template_dir
the [templates] override section
##
##—————————————————————————
[general]
cvs_roots: Specifies each of the CVS roots on your system and
assigns names to them. Each root should be given by a “name: path”
value (where the path is an absolute filesystem path). Multiple roots
should be separated by commas and can be placed on separate lines.
##
Example:
cvs_roots = cvsroot: /opt/cvs/repos1,
anotherroot: /usr/local/cvs/repos2
##
#cvs_roots = cvs:
svn_roots: Specifies each of the Subversion roots (repositories) on
your system and assigns names to them. Each root should be given by
a “name: path” value (where the path is an absolute filesystem path).
Multiple roots should be separated by commas and can be placed on
separate lines.
##
NOTE: ViewVC offers experimental support for displaying remote
Subversion repositories. Simply use the repository’s URL instead
of a local filesystem path when defining the root.
##
Example:
svn_roots = svnrepos: /opt/svn/,
anotherrepos: /usr/local/svn/repos2
##
#svn_roots =
root_parents: Specifies a list of directories under which any
number of repositories may reside. You can specify multiple root
parents separated by commas or new lines, each of which is of the
form “path: type” (where the type is either “cvs” or “svn”, and
the path is an absolute filesystem path).
##
Rather than force you to add a new entry to ‘cvs_roots’ or
‘svn_roots’ each time you create a new repository, ViewVC rewards
you for organizing all your repositories under a few parent
directories by allowing you to simply tell it about those parent
directories. ViewVC will then notice each repository of the
specified type in that directory as a root whose name is the
subdirectory in which that repository lives.
##
For example, if you have three Subversion repositories located at
/opt/svn/projects, /opt/svn/websites, and /opt/svn/devstuff, you
could list them individually in svn_roots like so:
##
svn_roots = projects: /opt/svn/projects,
websites: /opt/svn/websites,
devstuff: /opt/svn/devstuff
##
or you could instead use the root_parents configuration option:
##
root_parents = /opt/svn: svn
##
The benefit of this latter approach is that, as you add new
repositories to your /opt/svn directory, they automatically become
available for display in ViewVC without additional configuration.
##
WARNING: the root names derived for repositories configured via the
root_parents option can, of course, clash with names you have
defined in your cvs_roots or svn_roots configuration items. If
this occurs, you can either rename the offending repository on
disk, or grant new names to the clashing item in cvs_roots or
svn_roots. Each parent path is processed sequentially, so the
names of repositories under later parent paths may override earlier
ones.
##
Example:
root_parents = /opt/svn: svn,
/opt/cvs: cvs
##
#root_parents = /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS : cvs
default_root: This is the name of the default root. Valid names
include those explicitly listed in the cvs_roots and svn_roots
configuration options, as well as those implicitly indicated by
virtue of being the basenames of repositories found in the
root_parents option locations.
##
NOTE: This setting is ignored when root_as_url_component is enabled.
##
Example:
default_root = cvsroot
##
#default_root =
mime_types_files: This is a list of pathnames to a set of MIME type
mapping files to help ViewVC guess the correct MIME type of a
versioned file. The pathnames listed here are specified in order of
authoritativeness either as absolute paths or relative to this
configuration file.
##
As a convenience, ViewVC provides a MIME type mapping file
(mimetypes.conf) which is, by default, the preferred provider of
MIME type mapping answers, but which is also empty. If you find
that ViewVC is unable to accurately guess MIME types based on the
extensions of some of your versioned files, you can add records of
your preferred mappings to the provided mimetypes.conf file (or to
your system’s mapping files, if you wish).
##
You might, for example, wish to have ViewVC also consult the mapping
files provided by your operating system and Apache.
##
Example:
mime_types_files = mimetypes.conf,
/etc/mime.types,
/usr/local/apache2/conf/mime.types
##
#mime_types_files = mimetypes.conf
address: The address of the local repository maintainer. (This
option is provided only as a convenience for ViewVC installations
which are using the default template set, where the value of this
option will be displayed in the footer of every ViewVC page.)
##
Example:
address = admin@server.com
##
#address =
kv_files: Provides a mechanism for custom key/value pairs to be
available to templates. These are stored in key/value (KV) files.
##
The paths of the KV files are listed here, specified either as
absolute paths or relative to this configuration file. The files
use the same format as this configuration file, containing one or
more user-defined sections, and user-defined options in those
sections. ViewVC makes these options available to template authors
as:
##
kv.SECTION.OPTION
##
Note that an option name can be dotted. For example:
##
[my_images]
logos.small = /images/small-logo.png
logos.big = /images/big-logo.png
##
Templates can use these with a directive like: [kv.my_images.logos.small]
##
Note that section names which are common to multiple KV files will
be merged. If two files have a [my_images] section, then the
options in those two like-named sections will be merged together.
If two files have the same option name in a section, then one will
overwrite the other (and which one “wins” is unspecified).
##
To further categorize the KV files, and how the values are provided to
the templates, a KV file name may be annotated with an additional level
of dotted naming. For example:
##
kv_files = [asf]kv/images.conf
##
Assuming the same section as above, the template would refer to an image
using [kv.asf.my_images.logos.small]
##
Lastly, it is possible to use %lang% in the filenames to specify a
substitution of the selected language-tag.
##
Example:
kv_files = kv/file1.conf, kv/file2.conf, [i18n]kv/%lang%_data.conf
##
#kv_files =
This option is a comma-separated list of language-tag values
available to ViewVC. The first language-tag listed is the default
language, and will be used if an Accept-Language header is not
present in the request, or none of the user’s requested languages
are available. If there are ties on the selection of a language,
then the first to appear in the list is chosen.
##
Example:
languages = en-us, en-gb, de
##
#languages = en-us
##—————————————————————————
[utilities]
ViewVC uses (sometimes optionally) various third-party programs to do some
of the heavy lifting. Generally, it will attempt to execute those utility
programs in such a way that if they are found in ViewVC’s executable
search path ($PATH, %PATH%, etc.) all is well. But sometimes these tools
aren’t installed in the executable search path, so here’s where you can
tell ViewVC where to find them.
##
NOTE: Options with a “_dir” suffix are for configuring the
directories in which certain programs live. Note that this might
not be the same directory into which the program’s installer dumped
the whole program package — we want the deepest directory in which
the executable program itself resides (“C:\rcstools\bin\win32”
rather than just “C:\rcstools”, for example). The values of options
whose names lack the “_dir” suffix should point to the actual
program itself (such as “C:\Program Files\cvsnt\cvs.exe”).
rcs_dir: Directory in which the RCS utilities are installed, used
for viewing CVS repositories.
##
Example:
rcs_dir = /usr/bin/
##
#rcs_dir = /usr/local/bin
cvsnt: Location of cvsnt program. ViewVC can use CVSNT (www.cvsnt.org)
instead of the RCS utilities to retrieve information from CVS
repositories. To enable use of CVSNT, set the “cvsnt” value to the
path of the CVSNT executable. (If CVSNT is on the standard path, you
can also set it to the name of the CVSNT executable). By default
“cvsnt” is set to “cvs” on Windows and is not set on other platforms.
##
Examples:
cvsnt = K:\Program Files\cvsnt\cvs.exe
cvsnt = /usr/bin/cvs
cvsnt = cvs
##
#cvsnt =
svn: Location of the Subversion command-line client, used for
viewing Subversion repositories.
##
Example:
svn = /usr/bin/svn
##
#svn =
diff: Location of the GNU diff program, used for showing file
version differences.
##
Example:
diff = /usr/bin/diff
##
#diff =
cvsgraph: Location of the CvsGraph program, a graphical CVS version
graph generator (see options.use_cvsgraph).
##
Example:
cvsgraph = /usr/local/bin/cvsgraph
##
#cvsgraph =
##—————————————————————————
[options]
root_as_url_component: Interpret the first path component in the URL
after the script location as the root to use. This is an
alternative to using the “root=” query key. If ViewVC is configured
with multiple repositories, this results in more natural looking
ViewVC URLs.
##
NOTE: Enabling this option will break backwards compatibility with
any old ViewCVS URL which doesn’t have an explicit “root” parameter.
##
#root_as_url_component = 1
checkout_magic: Use checkout links with magic /checkout/ prefixes so
checked out HTML pages can have working links to other repository files
##
NOTE: This option is DEPRECATED and should not be used in new ViewVC
installations. Setting “default_file_view = co” achieves the same effect
##
#checkout_magic = 0
allowed_views: List the ViewVC views which are enabled. Views not
in this comma-delited list will not be served (or, will return an
error on attempted access).
##
Valid items for this list include: “annotate”, “co”, “diff”, “markup”,
“roots”, “tar”.
##
———-+———————————————————
VIEW | DESCRIPTION
———-+———————————————————
annotate | The ‘annotate’ view shows the contents of a single
| revision of a versioned file in exactly the same way as
| the markup view, but with additional line-by-line
| change attribution (the revision number, author, etc.
| the most recent edit to that line of text as of the
| displayed version).
———-+———————————————————
co | The ‘co’ (aka “checkout” or “download”) view isn’t
| really a branded view at all, but allows for direct
| downloading of the contents of a single revision of a
| versioned file.
———-+———————————————————
diff | The ‘diff’ view displays line-based differences between
| two revisions of a versioned file in a variety of
| different user-selectable formats.
———-+———————————————————
markup | The ‘markup’ view shows the contents of a single
| revision of a versioned file, with syntax highlighting
| where possible and enabled. It can also optionally
| show change log information for that revision of the
| file.
———-+———————————————————
roots | The ‘roots’ view is a simple listing of the various
| repositories which ViewVC has been configured to serve
| to users.
———-+———————————————————
tar | The ‘tar’ view isn’t a branded view, but generates
| a GNU Tar archive file containing a single versioned
| directory and its contents (recursively).
———-+———————————————————
##
#allowed_views = annotate, diff, markup, roots
Comma-delimited list of MIME content types (with support for fnmatch-
style glob characters) which are considered not-human-readable and for
which ViewVC will neither generate links to, nor support the direct
display of, non-checkout views which carry the file’s content (the
‘markup’, ‘annotate’, ‘diff’, and ‘patch’ views).
##
NOTE: Handling of this option is given priority over ViewVC’s
longstanding support for showing web-friendly file formats — even
binary ones such as “image/jpeg” and “image/gif” — in the ‘markup’
view. Thus, if you add “image/*” to this list, ‘markup’-view
display of JPEG, GIF, and PNG images will be disabled.
##
Example:
binary_mime_types = application/octet-stream, image/*, application/pdf,
application/vnd*, application/msword, audio/*
#
#binary_mime_types =
authorizer: The name of the ViewVC authorizer plugin to use when
authorizing access to repository contents. This value must be the
name of a Python module addressable as vcauth.MODULENAME (most
easily accomplished by placing it in ViewVC’s lib/vcauth/ directory)
and which implements a ViewVCAuthorizer class (as a subclass of
vcauth.GenericViewVCAuthorizer). You can provide custom parameters
to the authorizer module by defining configuration sections named
authz-MODULENAME and adding the parameter keys and values there.
##
ViewVC provides the following modules:
svnauthz – based on Subversion authz files
forbidden – simple path glob matches against top-level root directories
forbiddenre – root and path matches against regular expressions
##
NOTE: Only one authorizer may be in use for a given ViewVC request.
It doesn’t matter if you configure the parameters of multiple
authorizer plugins — only the authorizer whose name is configured
here (or effectively configured here via per-vhost or per-root
configuration) will be activated.
##
#authorizer =
hide_cvsroot: Don’t show the CVSROOT directory
1 Hide CVSROOT directory
0 Show CVSROOT directory
##
NOTE: Someday this option may be removed in favor of letting
individual authorizer plugin hide the CVSROOT.
##
#hide_cvsroot = 1
mangle_email_addresses: Mangle email addresses in marked-up output.
There are various levels of mangling available:
0 – No mangling; markup un-mangled email addresses as hyperlinks
1 – Obfuscation (using entity encoding); no hyperlinking
2 – Data-dropping address truncation; no hyperlinking
##
NOTE: this will not effect the display of versioned file contents, only
addresses that appear in version control metadata (e.g. log messages).
##
#mangle_email_addresses = 0
custom_log_formatting: Specifies mappings of regular expressions to
substitution format strings used to URL-ize strings found in
revision log messages. Multiple mappings (specified as
REGEXP:FORMATSTRING) may be defined, separated by commas.
##
NOTE: Due to a limitation of the configuration format, commas may
not be used in the regular expression portion of each mapping.
Commas “in the raw” may not be used in the format string portion,
either, but you can probably use the URI-encoded form of the comma
(“%2C”) instead with no ill side-effects. If you must specify a
colon character in either the regular expression or the format
string, escape it with a preceding backslash (“:”).
##
Example:
custom_log_formatting =
artf[0-9]+ : http://example.com/tracker?id=\0,
issue ([0-9]+) : http://example.com/bug?id=\1&opts=full%2csortby=id
##
#custom_log_formatting =
default_file_view: “log”, “co”, or “markup”
Controls whether the default view for file URLs is a checkout view or
a log view. “log” is the default for backwards compatibility with old
ViewCVS URLs, but “co” has the advantage that it allows ViewVC to serve
static HTML pages directly from a repository with working links
to other repository files
##
NOTE: Changing this option may break compatibility with existing
bookmarked URLs.
##
ALSO NOTE: If you choose one of the “co” or “markup” views, be sure
to enable it (via the allowed_views option)
##
#default_file_view = log
http_expiration_time: Expiration time (in seconds) for cacheable
pages served by ViewVC. Note that in most cases, a cache aware
client will only revalidate the page after it expires (using the
If-Modified-Since and/or If-None-Match headers) and that browsers
will also revalidate the page when the reload button is pressed.
Set to 0 to disable the transmission of these caching headers.
##
#http_expiration_time = 600
generate_etags: Generate Etag headers for relevant pages to assist
in browser caching.
1 Generate Etags
0 Don’t generate Etags
##
#generate_etags = 1
svn_ignore_mimetype: Don’t consult the svn:mime-type property to
determine how to display a file in the markup view. This is
especially helpful when versioned images carry the default
Subversion-calculated MIME type of “application/octet-stream” (which
isn’t recognized as viewable type by browsers).
##
#svn_ignore_mimetype = 0
max_filesize_kbytes: Limit ViewVC’s processing of file contents in
“markup” and “annotate” views to only those files which are smaller
than this setting, expressed in kilobytes. Set to 0 to disable
this safeguard.
##
NOTE: The “co” and “tar” views are unaffected by this setting.
#max_filesize_kbytes = 512
svn_config_dir: Path of the Subversion runtime configuration
directory ViewVC should consult for various things, including cached
remote authentication credentials. If unset, Subversion will use
the default location(s) ($HOME/.subversion, etc.)
##
#svn_config_dir =
use_rcsparse: Use the rcsparse Python module to retrieve CVS
repository information instead of invoking rcs utilities [EXPERIMENTAL]
##
#use_rcsparse = 1
sort_by: File sort order
file Sort by filename
rev Sort by revision number
date Sort by commit date
author Sort by author
log Sort by log message
##
#sort_by = file
sort_group_dirs: Group directories when sorting
1 Group directories together
0 No grouping — sort directories as any other item would be sorted
##
#sort_group_dirs = 1
hide_attic: Hide or show the contents of the Attic subdirectory
1 Hide dead files inside Attic subdir
0 Show the files which are inside the Attic subdir
##
#hide_attic = 1
hide_errorful_entries: Hide or show errorful directory entries
(perhaps due to not being readable, or some other rlog parsing
error, etc.)
1 Hide errorful entries from the directory display
0 Show errorful entries (with their errors) in the directory display
##
#hide_errorful_entries = 0
log_sort: Sort order for log messages
date Sort revisions by date
rev Sort revision by revision number
none Use the version control system’s ordering
##
#log_sort = date
diff_format: Default diff format
h Human readable
u Unified diff
c Context diff
s Side by side
l Long human readable (more context)
f Full human readable (entire file)
##
#diff_format = h
hr_breakable: Diff view line breaks
1 lines break at spaces
0 no line breaking
Or, use a positive integer > 1 to cut lines after that many characters
##
#hr_breakable = 1
hr_funout: Give out function names in human readable diffs.
(Only works well for C source files, otherwise diff’s heuristic falls short.)
(‘-p’ option to diff)
##
#hr_funout = 1
hr_ignore_white: Ignore whitespace (indendation and stuff) for human
readable diffs.
(‘-w’ option to diff)
##
#hr_ignore_white = 0
hr_ignore_keyword_subst: Ignore diffs which are caused by keyword
substitution (such as “$Id – Stuff”).
(‘-kk’ option to rcsdiff)
##
#hr_ignore_keyword_subst = 1
hr_intraline: Enable highlighting of intraline changes in human
readable diffs. [Requires Python 2.4]
##
#hr_intraline = 0
allow_compress: Allow compression via gzip of output if the Browser
accepts it (HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING contains “gzip”).
##
NOTE: this relies on Python’s gzip module, which has proven to be
not-so-performant. Enabling this feature should reduce the overall
transfer size of ViewVC’s responses to the client’s request, but
will do so with a speed penalty.
##
#allow_compress = 0
template_dir: The directory which contains the EZT templates used by
ViewVC to customize the display of the various output views. ViewVC
looks in this directory for files with names that match the name of
the view (“log”, “directory”, etc.) plus the “.ezt” extension. If
specified as a relative path, it is relative to the directory where
this config file resides; absolute paths may be used as well. If
%lang% occurs in the pathname, then the selected language will be
substituted.
SEE ALSO: the [templates] configuration section, where you can
override templates on a per-view basis.
##
#template_dir = templates
docroot: Web path to a directory that contains ViewVC static files
(stylesheets, images, etc.) If set, static files will get
downloaded directory from this location. If unset, static files
will be served by the ViewVC script (at a likely performance
penalty, and from the “docroot” subdirectory of the directory
specified by the “template_dir” option).
##
NOTE: This option is evaluated outside the context of a particular
root. Be careful when using per-root configuration to select an
alternate template set as the default value for this option will
still be based on the global default template set per ‘template_dir’
above, not on ‘template_dir’ as overridden for a given root.
##
#docroot =
show_subdir_lastmod: Show last changelog message for CVS subdirectories
##
NOTE: The current implementation makes many assumptions and may show
the incorrect file at some times. The main assumption is that the
last modified file has the newest filedate. But some CVS operations
touches the file without even when a new version is not checked in,
and TAG based browsing essentially puts this out of order, unless
the last checkin was on the same tag as you are viewing. Enable
this if you like the feature, but don’t rely on correct results.
##
SECURITY WARNING: Enabling this will currently leak unauthorized
path names.
##
#show_subdir_lastmod = 0
show_roots_lastmod: In the root listing view, show the most recent
modifications made to the root. (Subversion roots only.)
##
NOTE: Enabling this feature will significantly reduce the
performance of the root listing view.
##
#show_roots_lastmod = 0
show_logs: Show the most recent log entry in directory listings.
##
#show_logs = 1
show_log_in_markup: Show log when viewing file contents.
##
#show_log_in_markup = 1
cross_copies: Cross filesystem copies when traversing Subversion
file revision histories.
##
#cross_copies = 1
use_localtime: Display dates as UTC or in local time zone.
##
#use_localtime = 0
iso8601_dates: Display timestamps using a standard ISO-8601 format.
##
#iso8601_timestamps = 0
short_log_len: The length (in characters) to which the most recent
log entry should be truncated when shown in the directory view.
##
#short_log_len = 80
enable_syntax_coloration: Should we colorize known file content
syntaxes?
##
NOTE: This feature requires the Pygments Python module
(http://pygments.org) and works only when ViewVC can determine the
MIME content type of the file whose contents it wishes to colorize.
Use the ‘mime_types_files’ configuration option to specify MIME
type mapping files useful for making that determination.
##
#enable_syntax_coloration = 1
tabsize: The number of spaces into which horizontal tab characters
are converted when viewing file contents. Set to 0 to preserve
tab characters.
##
#tabsize = 8
detect_encoding: Should we attempt to detect versioned file
character encodings? [Requires ‘chardet’ module, and is currently
used only for the ‘markup’ and ‘annotate’ views.]
##
#detect_encoding = 0
use_cvsgraph: Use CvsGraph to offer visual graphs of CVS revision history.
##
#use_cvsgraph = 0
cvsgraph_conf: Location of the customized cvsgraph configuration file.
May be specified as an absolute path or as a path relative to this
configuration file.
##
#cvsgraph_conf = cvsgraph.conf
use_re_search: Enable regular expression search of files in a directory.
##
WARNING: Enabling this option can consume HUGE amounts of server
time. A “checkout” must be performed on each file in a directory,
and the result needs to be searched for a match against the regular
expression.
##
SECURITY WARNING: Since a user can enter the regular expression, it
is possible for them to enter an expression with many alternatives
and a lot of backtracking. Executing that search over thousands of
lines over dozens of files can easily tie up a server for a long
period of time. This option should only be used on sites with
trusted users. It is highly inadvisable to use this on a public site.
##
#use_re_search = 0
dir_pagesize: Maximum number of directory entries on a given page.
This allows ViewVC to present discrete pages to the users instead of
the entire directory. Set to 0 to disable pagination.
##
#dir_pagesize = 0
log_pagesize: Maximum number of revision log entries on a given page.
This allows ViewVC to present discrete pages to the users instead of
the entire revision log. Set to 0 to disable pagination.
##
#log_pagesize = 0
log_pagesextra: Maximum number of extra pages (based on
log_pagesize) of revision log data to fetch and present to the user
as additional options for display. Revision log information
“beyond” this window is still accessible, but must be navigated to
in multiple steps.
##
Example:
log_pagesize = 100
log_pagesextra = 3
##
For a versioned file with 1000 revisions, the above settings would
present to the user the first 100 of those 1000 revisions, with
links to three additional pages (the 200-299th revisions, 300-399th
revisions, and 400-499th revisions) plus a link to the 500th
revision. Following these links slides the display “window”,
showing the requested set of revisions plus links to three
additional pages beyond those, and so on.
##
#log_pagesextra = 3
limit_changes: Maximum number of changed paths shown per commit in
the Subversion revision view and in query results. This is not a
hard limit (the UI provides options to show all changed paths), but
it prevents ViewVC from generating enormous and hard to read pages
by default when they happen to contain import or merge commits
affecting hundreds or thousands of files. Set to 0 to disable the
limit.
##
#limit_changes = 100
##—————————————————————————
[templates]
You can override the templates used by various ViewVC views in this
section. By default, ViewVC will look for templates in the
directory specified by the “template_dir” configuration option (see
the documentation for that option for details). But if you want to
use a different template for a particular view, simply uncomment the
appropriate option below and specify the currect location of the EZT
template file you wish to use for that view.
Templates are specified relative to the configured template
directory (see the “template_dir” option), but absolute paths may
also be used as well.
##
If %lang% occurs in the pathname, then the selected language will be
substituted.
##
NOTE: the selected language is defined by the “languages” item in the
[general] section, and based on the request’s Accept-Language
header.
##
diff: Template used for the file differences view.
##
#diff =
directory: Template used for the directory listing view.
##
#directory =
error: Template used for the ViewVC error display view.
##
#error =
file: Template used for the file contents/annotation view.
##
#file =
graph: Template used for the revision graph view.
##
#graph =
log: Template used for the revision log view.
##
#log =
query: Template used for the non-integrated query interface.
##
#query =
query_form: Template used for the query form view.
##
#query_form =
query_results: Template used for the query results view.
##
#query_results =
revision: Template used for the revision/changeset view.
##
#revision =
roots: Template used for the root listing view.
##
#roots =
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[cvsdb]
enabled: Enable database integration feature.
##
#enabled = 1
host: Database hostname. Leave unset to use a local Unix socket
connection.
##
#host = localhost
post: Database listening port.
##
#port = 3306
database_name: ViewVC database name.
##
#database_name = ViewVC
user: Username of user with read/write privileges to the database
specified by the ‘database_name’ configuration option.
##
#user = VIEWVC
passwd: Password of user with read/write privileges to the database
specified by the ‘database_name’ configuration option.
##
#passwd = gr33nback
readonly_user: Username of user with read privileges to the database
specified by the ‘database_name’ configuration option.
##
#readonly_user = VIEWVCRO
readonly_passwd: Password of user with read privileges to the database
specified by the ‘database_name’ configuration option.
##
#readonly_passwd = gr33nback
row_limit: Maximum number of rows returned by a given normal query
to the database.
##
NOTE: This limits the amount of data provided to ViewVC by the
database. It is from this already-reduced data set that ViewVC
builds the query response it presents to the user, which may or may
not include still more limiting via the query form’s ‘limit’
parameter. In other words, there is no value which the user can use
in the query form’s ‘limit’ parameter which will cause more data to
be returned by the database for ViewVC to process.
##
#row_limit = 1000
rss_row_limit: Maximum number of rows returned by a given query to
the database made as part of an RSS feed request. (Keeping in mind
that RSS readers tend to poll regularly for new data, you might want
to keep this set to a conservative number.)
##
See also the `NOTE’ for the ‘row_limit’ option, which applies here
as well.
##
#rss_row_limit = 100
check_database_for_root: Check if the repository is found in the
database before showing the query link and RSS feeds.
WARNING: Enabling this check adds the cost of a database connection
and query to most ViewVC requests. If all your roots are represented
in the commits database, or if you don’t care about the creation of
RSS and query links that might lead ultimately to error pages for
certain of your roots, or if you simply don’t want to add this extra
cost to your ViewVC requests, leave this disabled.
##
#check_database_for_root = 0
##—————————————————————————
[vhosts]
Virtual hosts are individual logical servers accessible via
different hostnames, but which are all really the same physical
computer. For example, you might have your web server configured to
accept incoming traffic for both http://www.yourdomain.com/ and
http://viewvc.yourdomain.com/. Users pointing their web browsers at
each of those two URLs might see entirely different content via one
URL versus the other, but all that content actually lives on the
same computer, is served up via the same web server, and so
on. It just looks like its coming from multiple servers.
##
ViewVC allows you to customize its configuration options for
individual virtual hosts. You might, for example, wish to expose
all of your Subversion repositories at http://svn.yourdomain.com/viewvc/
and all your CVS ones at http://cvs.yourdomain.com/viewvc/, with no
cross-exposure. Using ViewVC’s virtual host (vhost) configuration
support, you can do this. Simply create two vhost configurations
(one for each of your hostnames), then configure the cvs_roots
option only for the vhost associated with cvs.yourdomain.com, and
configure the svn_roots option only for the vhost associated with
svn.yourdomain.com.
##
This section is a freeform configuration section, where you create
both the option names and their values. The names of the options
are then treated as canonical names of virtual hosts, and their
values are defined to be comma-delimited lists of hostname globs
against which incoming ViewVC requests will be matched to figure out
which vhost they apply to.
##
After you’ve named and defined your vhosts, you may then create new
configuration sections whose names are of the form
vhost-VHOSTNAME/CONFIGSECTION. VHOSTNAME here is the canonical name
of one of the virtual hosts you defined under the [vhosts] section.
Inside those configuration sections, you override the standard
ViewVC options typically found in the base configuration section
named CONFIGSECTION (“general”, “option”, etc.)
##
NOTE: Per-vhost overrides may only be applied to the following
sections:
##
general
options
utilities
templates
cvsdb
authz-*
##
Here is an example:
##
[vhosts]
libs = libs.yourdomain.*, .yourlibs.
gui = guiproject.yourdomain.*
##
[vhost-libs/general]
cvs_roots =
svn_roots = svnroot: /var/svn/libs-repos
default_root = svnroot
##
[vhost-libs/options]
show_logs = 1
##
[vhost-gui/general]
cvs_roots = cvsroot: /var/cvs/guiproject
svn_roots =
default_root = cvsroot
##
##—————————————————————————
ViewVC recognizes per-root configuration overrides, too. To
override the value of a configuration parameter only for a single
root, create a configuration section whose names is of the form
root-ROOTNAME/CONFIGSECTION. ROOTNAME here is the name of the root
as defined explicitly in cvs_roots or svn_roots or implicitly as the
basename of a root path in root_parents. Options found in this new
configuration section override for this one root the corresponding
options found in the base configuration section CONFIGSECTION
(“options”, “authz-*”, etc.) as interpreted after per-vhost
overrides (if any) have been applied.
##
NOTE: Per-root overrides may only be applied to the following
sections:
##
options
utilities
authz-*
##
WARNING: Do not use per-root overrides if your ViewVC instance is
served via the standalone.py server option! Doing so could cause
ViewVC to be unable to function properly (or at all).
##
Here is an example showing how to enable Subversion authz-based
authorization for only the single root named “svnroot”:
[root-svnroot/options]
authorizer = svnauthz
##
[root-svnroot/authz-svnauthz]
authzfile = /path/to/authzfile
##
##—————————————————————————
[authz-forbidden]
The “forbidden” authorizer forbids access to repository modules,
defined to be top-level subdirectories in a repository.
##
NOTE: The options in this section apply only when the ‘authorizer’
option (in the [options] section) is set to ‘forbidden’.
forbidden: A comma-delimited list of patterns which match modules
that ViewVC should hide from users.
##
You can use a simple list of modules, or something more complex:
##
*) The “!” can be used before a module to explicitly state that it
is NOT forbidden. Whenever this form is seen, then all modules will
be forbidden unless one of the “!” modules match.
##
) Shell-style “glob” expressions may be used. “” will match any
sequence of zero or more characters, “?” will match any single
character, “[seq]” will match any character in seq, and “[!seq]”
will match any character not in seq.
##
*) Tests are performed in sequence. The first match will terminate the
testing. This allows for more complex allow/deny patterns.
##
Tests are case-sensitive.
##
NOTE: Again, this is for the hiding of modules within repositories, not
for the hiding of repositories (roots) themselves.
##
Some examples:
##
Disallow “example” but allow all others:
forbidden = example
##
Disallow “example1” and “example2” but allow all others:
forbidden = example1, example2
##
Allow only “example1” and “example2”:
forbidden = !example1, !example2
##
Forbid modules starting with “x”:
forbidden = x*
##
Allow modules starting with “x” but no others:
forbidden = !x*
##
Allow “xml”, forbid other modules starting with “x”, and allow the rest:
forbidden = !xml, x*, !*
##
#forbidden =
##—————————————————————————
[authz-forbiddenre]
The “forbiddenre” authorizer forbids access to repositories and
repository paths by comparing a list of regular expressions
(separated by commas) against paths consisting of the repository (or
root) name plus the path of the versioned file or directory to be
tested. For example, to see if the user is authorized to see the
path “/trunk/www/index.html” in the repository whose root name is
“svnrepos”, this authorizer will check the path
“svnrepos/trunk/www/index.html” against the list of forbidden
regular expressions. Directory paths will be terminated by a forward
slash.
##
NOTE: The options in this section apply only when the ‘authorizer’
option (in the [options] section) is set to ‘forbiddenre’.
forbiddenre: A comma-delimited list of regular expressions which
match paths that ViewVC should hide from users.
##
Like the “forbidden” authorizer…
##
*) The “!” can be used before a module to explicitly state that it
is NOT forbidden. Whenever this form is seen, then all modules will
be forbidden unless one of the “!” modules match.
##
*) Tests are performed in sequence. The first match will terminate the
testing. This allows for more complex allow/deny patterns.
##
Unlike the “forbidden” authorizer, you can can use this to hide roots, too.
##
Some examples:
##
Disallow files named “PRIVATE”, but allow all others:
forbiddenre = /PRIVATE$
##
Disallow the “hidden” repository, allowing all others:
forbiddenre = ^hidden(/|$)
##
Allow only the “example1” and “example2” roots and the paths inside them,
disallowing all others (which can be done in multiple ways):
forbiddenre = !^example1(/|$), !^example2(/|$)/
forbiddenre = !^example12
##
Only allow visibility of HTML files and the directories that hold them:
forbiddenre = !^([^/]+|.*(/|.html))$
##
#forbiddenre =
##—————————————————————————
[authz-svnauthz]
The “svnauthz” authorizer uses a Subversion authz configuration file
to determine access to repository paths.
##
NOTE: The options in this section apply only when the ‘authorizer’
option (in the [options] section) is set to ‘svnauthz’.
authzfile: Specifies the location of the authorization rules file
(using an absolute path).
##
#authzfile =
root_relative_authzfile: Specifies the location of the
authorization rules file using an path relative to the repository.
##
Example:
root_relative_authzfile = conf/access
##
#root_relative_authzfile =
force_username_case: Like the AuthzForceUsernameCase httpd.conf
directive, set this to “upper” or “lower” to force the normalization
to upper- or lower-case, respectively, of incoming usernames prior
to comparison against the authorization rules files. Leave the
option unset to preserve the username case.
##
#force_username_case =
##—————————————————————————
[query]
The configuration items in this section are used exclusively by the
‘query’ script, a separate script from ViewVC itself that ships
with ViewVC and allows for queries into the ViewVC commits
database. If you aren’t using this separate script (which was made
largely irrelevant by the introduction of an integrated “query”
view in ViewVC itself, or aren’t using the ViewVC commits database
functionality at all, you can ignore these configurations items
altogether.
viewvc_base_url: Base URL at which ViewVC may be accessed on this
server. The default value for this option is determined at
run-time by the various front-ends to the query script.
##
Examples:
viewvc_base_url = /viewvc.py
viewvc_base_url = /viewvc.wsgi
viewvc_base_url = /cgi-bin/viewvc
viewvc_base_url = viewvc
##
To disable cross-linking between the query script and ViewVC,
uncomment this option and leave its value empty.
##
#viewvc_base_url =
##—————————————————————————
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Hey Adam,
You have to un-commented these out by removing the “#” symbols. Follow the example above when you edit the viewvc.conf file.
Hope that Helps.
Ryan
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Bingo! Thanks a lot Ryan!
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You are welcome 🙂
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Great guide ! amazingly detailed ! thanks for the same.
I have setup rancid, followed all the steps. Here’s a problem that I am facing.
After defining hosts, devices in router.db and passwords/parameters in .cloginrc. I have also configured this to backup config of my cisco sb series switches (did the changes in rancid-fe and have rights permissions set for csblogin and csbrancid files). Finally i executed the /usr/local/rancid/bin/rancid-run command. This brought up all the devices UP in the repositories I created in CVS. all good.
But the configuration is not being pulled by rancid. I checked logs and found the messages as below. Any help would be much appreciated.
switch1 csblogin error: Error: missing close-brace
switch1: missed cmd(s): show version,show system,show startup-config
switch1: End of run not found
Here are the settings that I did in the required files
host file
192.168.0.242 switch1
router.db
switch1:cisco-sb:up
cloginrc
add method switch1 ssh
add user switch1 {admin}
add password switch1 {passw0rd12$}
add autoenable switch1 1
add userprompt switch1 {“user name:”}
-best
Rohit
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Hey Rohit,
Everything looks good but on your router.db are you using semi-colon? (;) instead of a colon (:)? If you are using newer versions of rancid this needs to be a semi-colon in the router.db. It’s awesome that you are using a custom script to support other network devices however I’m have not used Cisco SB switches so the only thing I would look at is the cloginrc file. The missing close-brace error is usually means there is a brace “{” that is open still in your cloginrc file.
Good Luck
Ryan
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hey thanks Ryan.
I am using colon coz its old version of rancid since in the new i can not update vendor table. however what you said is correct, i found the missing close brace. I looked for it before posting here but i guess I missed it and thought it could be due to some other reason. but thanks for getting back.
again a great guide. it helped a lot !!!
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Hi Ryan 🙂
Hope you are doing well. After running the last command I get the following error. Could you please help me ?
root@rancid-test:~# /usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/bin/cvsdbadmin rebuild /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/CVSROOT/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/bin/cvsdbadmin”, line 44, in
import cvsdb
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/lib/cvsdb.py”, line 21, in
import dbi
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/lib/dbi.py”, line 18, in
import MySQLdb
ImportError: No module named MySQLdb
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Hey Iqbal,
It looks like ViewVC can’t find the the MySQLdb module. Is MySQL (Mariadb) installed? I would think it is since you had to create users before running this command. What happens when you run this command? systemctl status mariadb
Ryan
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Hi Ryan,
thanks for the reply. I don’t know what the reason is, but I was able to do it when I tried to do it again from the beginning 🙂
It looks like this now : https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=1BBA8AF56E1CCA90!4580&authkey=!AN-zNMBZRJY-d9I&v=3&ithint=photo%2cPNG
What I want now is to change the ViewVC logo to be replaced by my company logo. I know I have to change the html page corresponding to it. But I don’t find that html page. Do you have any idea?
Thanks a lot in advance 🙂
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Hey Iqbal,
I have not played around the templates folder in ViewVC. All the HTML information is stored.
usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/templates/includeGood Luck 😉
Ryan
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[root@icewarp /]# /usr/local/viewvc-1.2-dev/bin/cvsdbadmin rebuild /usr/local/rancid/
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.2-dev/bin/cvsdbadmin”, line 43, in
import cvsdb
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.2-dev/lib/cvsdb.py”, line 20, in
import dbi
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.2-dev/lib/dbi.py”, line 18, in
import MySQLdb
ImportError: No module named MySQLdb
Having a problem. I checked my mariadb service and it’s working.
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[root@icewarp /]# /usr/local/viewvc-1.2-dev/bin/cvsdbadmin rebuild /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/CVSROOT/
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Chris did that rebuild work?
Ryan
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No the rebuild didn’t work still the same error.
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Yes fixed it. Problem was my config. The user ViewVC wasn’t cap and I need to install mysql-python and that fixed my issue.
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Very helpful .I try to deploy Rancid in Centos 7 for a few weeks ,but cant solve problem caused by dependent packages ,I follow the instruction write by a few years ago ,some packages seems EOL, like mod_python and phpmhash .etc when i seems get into trouble , I find this awesome guidle .thank again ,especially you provide a link to discussions of the BBS .I look forward to your next article about Rancie
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Your welcome, FYI here is the other post I did about Rancid just in case you need it as a reference.
https://ciscoskills.net/2015/02/27/configuring-rancid/
Ryan
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Hello..
Am very new to linux and am trying your installation guide above.
After completing the installation, i have no access to http://rancid-ip/viewvc.
When trying to restart httpd service. The following error is obtained.
Job for httpd.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See “systemctl status httpd.service” and “journalctl -xe” for details.
systemctl status httpd.service
● httpd.service – The Apache HTTP Server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2016-06-08 04:27:54 EDT; 1min 7s ago
Docs: man:httpd(8)
man:apachectl(8)
Process: 2664 ExecStop=/bin/kill -WINCH ${MAINPID} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Process: 2662 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -DFOREGROUND (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 2662 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server…
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test httpd[2662]: httpd: Syntax error on line 368 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Expected but saw
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test kill[2664]: kill: cannot find process “”
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state.
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test systemd[1]: httpd.service failed.
#journalctl -xe
Jun 08 04:06:02 Test kill[2626]: kill: cannot find process “”
Jun 08 04:06:02 Test systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 08 04:06:02 Test systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.
— Subject: Unit httpd.service has failed
— Defined-By: systemd
— Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
— Unit httpd.service has failed.
— The result is failed.
Jun 08 04:06:02 Test systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state.
Jun 08 04:06:02 Test systemd[1]: httpd.service failed.
Jun 08 04:06:02 Test polkitd[934]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2609:303230 (system bus name :1.15, object path /org/freedesktop
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test polkitd[934]: Registered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2647:434481 (system bus name :1.16 [/usr/bin/pkttyagent –notify-f
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server…
— Subject: Unit httpd.service has begun start-up
— Defined-By: systemd
— Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
— Unit httpd.service has begun starting up.
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test httpd[2662]: httpd: Syntax error on line 368 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: Expected but saw
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test systemd[1]: httpd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test kill[2664]: kill: cannot find process “”
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test systemd[1]: httpd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test systemd[1]: Failed to start The Apache HTTP Server.
— Subject: Unit httpd.service has failed
— Defined-By: systemd
— Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
— Unit httpd.service has failed.
— The result is failed.
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test systemd[1]: Unit httpd.service entered failed state.
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test systemd[1]: httpd.service failed.
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test polkitd[934]: Unregistered Authentication Agent for unix-process:2647:434481 (system bus name :1.16, object path /org/freedesktop
lines 2349-2383/238
Can you kindly help.
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Neel,
You might want to check your httpd.conf file (Line 368) there is something that is causing this error to come up, maybe a mistype?
Jun 08 04:27:54 Test httpd[2662]: httpd: Syntax error on line 368 of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.confHope that Helps,
Ryan
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Hello Ryan,
Yea, thanks for he prompt reply. Indeed its a silly mistyping error. Its working great. Thanks. 🙂
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A nice guide for me
but when i access to “Query on /configs” website and click “search”, an error appears,can you help me solve?
An Exception Has Occurred
Python Traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/lib/viewvc.py”, line 4855, in main
request.run_viewvc()
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/lib/viewvc.py”, line 408, in run_viewvc
self.view_func(self)
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/lib/viewvc.py”, line 4484, in view_query
db = cvsdb.ConnectDatabaseReadOnly(cfg)
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/lib/cvsdb.py”, line 908, in ConnectDatabaseReadOnly
return ConnectDatabase(cfg, 1)
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/lib/cvsdb.py”, line 904, in ConnectDatabase
db.Connect()
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/lib/cvsdb.py”, line 56, in Connect
self._host, self._port, self._user, self._passwd, self._database)
File “/usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/lib/dbi.py”, line 63, in connect
return MySQLdb.connect(host=host, port=port, user=user, passwd=passwd, db=db)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/init.py”, line 81, in Connect
return Connection(*args, **kwargs)
File “/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/MySQLdb/connections.py”, line 187, in __init__
super(Connection, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs2)
TypeError: connect() argument 3 must be string, not int
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Hey Wayne,
So to be honest I never really tried that query function. So I would not know where to start unfortunately. I did a test on my box and I get a different error then yours 😦
To what it looks like you might have typed something wrong in the search bar, maybe? I would just search for everything “Since the beginning of time” and see if you get anything comes up
Ryan
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Hi , it was looking like rancid change settings to make a single shipment notification email every 24 hours. I use RANCID for all my network device config backups. For non critical networks, or execs that wanted to know what was going on it the network .
Greetings and thank you
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Your Welcome 🙂
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Hi Ryan,
I am getting below error.
[root@localhost viewvc-1.1.24]# /usr/local/viewvc-1.1.24/bin/make-database
MySQL Hostname (leave blank for default):
MySQL Port (leave blank for default):
MySQL User: VIEWVC
MySQL Password: *******
ViewVC Database Name [default: ViewVC]:
ERROR 1045 (28000): Access denied for user ‘VIEWVC’@’localhost’ (using password: YES)
[ERROR] The database did not create sucessfully.
MariaDB [(none)]> SHOW GRANTS FOR ‘VIEWVC’@’localhost’\G
*************************** 1. row ***************************
Grants for VIEWVC@localhost: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON . TO ‘VIEWVC’@’localhost’ IDENTIFIED BY PASSWORD ‘*6025816A8686624E0CC3FA5F99FB8043E68252B7’ WITH GRANT OPTION
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
I have tried to grant privileges again and flush privileges but no luck.
Could you please help.
Thanks,
Amolak
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nm…I have reinstalled mariadb-server & mariadb. It fixed the issue. Thanks for this great article.
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No problem, glad you where able to get it working 🙂
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