[c-nsp] rancid and inventory with "^"

[Jon Lewis]

On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, john heasley wrote:

> Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:03:47AM +0300, Tassos Chatzithomaoglou:
>> We get daily differences (whole config parts are removed and readded), because rancid believes that something has changed, although this is not the case.
>> Probably has to do with the expect code.
>
> possibly; but doubtful.  when i see such behavior, it is because the
> device is having problems; low memory, fragmented memory, other s/w
> bug, failing hardware, etc.

We used to see this with AS5200's.  Large portions of the config would 
"disappear".  The cause was low/fragmented memory, and if you logged in 
and did a show run, you'd see it wasn't a rancid bug, but the access 
server about to hose itself.  The only thing to do at that point was 
reload the access-server.

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