problems with rancid and catalyst

[john heasley]

perhaps what we need is a .cloginrc switch which allows the prompt to
be adjusted?

Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:56:07PM -0400, Joe Marr:
> Great this works!
> 
> Joe Marr
> Network Engineer
> Roadrunner
> 
> "I do not hate my enemies. After all, I made them." - Red Skelton
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of David LaPorte
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:06 PM
> To: jmarr at twmaine.com; 'Andrew Partan'
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: RE: problems with rancid and catalyst
> 
> I had a similar problem - try setting your path to ptldme-swt01>
> 
> rancid appears to expect a ">" suffix on the prompt.
> 
> Dave LaPorte
> 
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> David LaPorte
> Network Engineer
> Harvard University Network Operations Center
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net]On Behalf Of Joe Marr
> > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 1:49 PM
> > To: 'Andrew Partan'
> > Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: RE: problems with rancid and catalyst
> > 
> > 
> > I tried the clogin test, clogin -c "show ver" ptldme-swt01
> > 
> > It accesses the router and sits the prompt, which would lead me to
> > believe that it doesn't recognize the prompt.
> > 
> > What's the best way to approach this, what should the prompt be?
> > Currently its ptldme-swt01:
> > 
> > Joe Marr
> > Network Engineer
> > Roadrunner
> > 
> > "I do not hate my enemies. After all, I made them." - Red Skelton
> > 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Partan
> > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 12:02 AM
> > To: jmarr at twmaine.com
> > Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: Re: problems with rancid and catalyst
> > 
> > > Ive been using rancid in various forms for over a year now, but I
> have
> > > never been able to have it successfully acquire the config from a
> > > catalyst 5505 (or a older 2900).
> > 
> > My usual diagnositic procedure for this sort of thing is:
> > 
> > - Make sure that the appropriate *login (clogin for cat5s) works.
> >   This tests to make sure you don't have routing or firewall types
> >   of issues, or dns or hostname errors, and that your .cloginrc
> >   settings are correct.
> > 
> > - See if you can send commands to the router - something like
> > 	clogin -c "command1;command2"
> >   This makes sure that the this basic function of clogin is working.
> >   Typical problems here are where clogin does not recognize the
> >   router prompt correctly.
> > 
> > - Then see if the correct rancid commands works against the router
> >   - "cat5rancid router" in this case.  You should get a router.new
> >   file if it does.  Otherwise try "cat5rancid -d router" and see
> >   if you can figure out what is going wrong.
> > 
> > If all of this works, then make sure that you have the correct
> > router name in router.db and check the log file for errors.
> > 
> > In any case, I suspect the problem is in your .cloginrc.  I always
> > put things like passwords & the like inside of {} to get around
> > expect goo.  [expect is a rather fragile program.]
> > 
> > > add user                ptldme-swt*     XXXX
> > > add enableprompt        ptldme-swt*     Enter password:
> > > add password            ptldme-swt*     {XXXXXXX}      {XXXXXX}
> > 
> > I'd change these to:
> > 	add user                ptldme-swt*     {XXXX}
> > 	add enableprompt        ptldme-swt*     {Enter password:}
> > 	add password            ptldme-swt*     {XXXXXXX}      {XXXXXX}
> > 
> > I'm also not sure if you need to set the enableprompt; I've not
> > done that on the cat5s I've had.
> > 	--asp
> >