rancid hangs due to expect, ssh, or cisco?

[john heasley]

Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 05:31:42PM -0600, Zhang, Anchi:
> My repeated tests show that the problem is related to the length of the
> config.  The Rancid collection that I mailed you privately was successful
> because I did
> 
> UU-Cisco-gw(config)# no ntp server 158.81.250.130
> 
> before I ran rancid -d <hostname>.  In fact, shortening the config by just
> one line, any line, would render Rancid successful.

hmm, i smell crack.  could you try the following on the router:

conf t
lin v 0 15
 exec-time 0
 session-time 0
^Z

then try rancid again.