Would upgrading to tcl8.5 be a potential solution? Reading through the old expect threads it indicated that the problem may be with Tcl itself. Right now the system is running tcl-8.4.19.<br clear="all"><br>-- Eric Cables<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 6:10 PM, Eric Cables <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ecables@gmail.com">ecables@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
This problem has made a resurgence this week, crashing out every night and sending the CPU on the box that RANCID runs on sky high. I end up killing the hung expect processes manually, but instead of staying constant it appears to be getting worse (dang growing environments).<br>
<br>Any suggestions are welcome...<br clear="all"><font color="#888888"><br>-- Eric Cables<br>
<br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 10:11 AM, Russell Jackson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:raj@csub.edu" target="_blank">raj@csub.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c">
<div><div></div><div>Eric Cables wrote:<br>
> I've been running into this problem quite frequently, about once a week or<br>
> so rancid will hang for no apparent reason, and until I kill the process it<br>
> will remain hung. I've read in the archives that Linux & Solaris have a<br>
> problem with expect that requires a patch, but does this also include<br>
> FreeBSD?<br>
><br>
<br>
</div></div>I've been running rancid on FreeBSD 6.2 without issue for some time. I haven't had any<br>
hangs with respect to expect. I haven't tried it on FreeBSD 7.0 yet.<br>
<br>
<br>
$ uname -a<br>
FreeBSD <a href="http://svn.csub.edu" target="_blank">svn.csub.edu</a> 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jul 13 19:38:42 PDT 2000<br>
rjackson3@thor.csub.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/THOR i386<br>
<br>
<br>
$ pkg_info | egrep 'tcl|rancid'<br>
expect-nox11-5.44.1.7 A sophisticated scripter based on tcl/tk<br>
rancid-local-2.3.2a7_1 Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ<br>
tcl-8.4.19,1 Tool Command Language<br>
<br>
<br>
I'm running a locally patched version of the rancid port to silence cisco diff noise (STP<br>
costs et al).<br>
<br>
$ diff -ur net-mgmt/rancid-devel local/rancid<br>
Only in local/rancid: .svn<br>
diff -ur net-mgmt/rancid-devel/Makefile local/rancid/Makefile<br>
--- net-mgmt/rancid-devel/Makefile Mon Dec 31 06:28:08 2007<br>
+++ local/rancid/Makefile Mon Feb 25 15:56:16 2008<br>
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@<br>
PORTREVISION= 1<br>
CATEGORIES= net-mgmt<br>
MASTER_SITES= <a href="ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/-PKGNAMESUFFIX=" target="_blank">ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/<br>
-PKGNAMESUFFIX=</a> -devel<br>
<br>
MAINTAINER= <a href="mailto:janos.mohacsi@bsd.hu" target="_blank">janos.mohacsi@bsd.hu</a><br>
COMMENT= Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ<br>
Only in local/rancid/files: .svn<br>
Only in local/rancid/files: patch-bin::<a href="http://cat5rancid.in" target="_blank">cat5rancid.in</a><br>
Only in local/rancid/files: patch-bin::<a href="http://clogin.in" target="_blank">clogin.in</a><br>
Only in local/rancid/files: patch-bin::<a href="http://rancid.in" target="_blank">rancid.in</a><br>
Only in local/rancid: pkg-message<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
--<br>
Russell A. Jackson <<a href="mailto:raj@csub.edu" target="_blank">raj@csub.edu</a>><br>
Network Analyst<br>
California State University, Bakersfield<br>
<br>
The greatest productive force is human selfishness.<br>
-- Robert Heinlein<br>
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