juniper being silly

[Randy Bush]

manually i can login just fine

%  rancid/bin/jlogin -c 'show conf;show conf' psg1.psg.com
psg1.psg.com
spawn ssh -c 3des -x -l rancid psg1.psg.com
RGnet /  PSGnet /  NSRC        Bainbridge Island, WA USA
psg1.psg.com 2002.10.22-1 +1 206 780-0431 / 206 356 8341

Last login: Wed Oct 23 04:26:59 2002 from rip.psg.com^M
--- JUNOS 5.4R2.4 built 2002-09-11 01:27:32 UTC

rancid at psg1> 

rancid at psg1> set cli complete-on-space off 
Disabling complete-on-space

rancid at psg1> set cli screen-length 0
Screen length set to 0

rancid at psg1> show conf
groups {
    statics {
        routing-options {
            rib <inet.*> {
                static {
                    route 205.238.48.0/24 discard;
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
/* ------------------------------------------------------------------------
system configuration
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 */
system {
    host-name psg1;
    domain-name psg.com;
    no-redirects;
    authentication-order password;
    location {
        country-code US;
        postal-code 98110;
        npa-nxx 206780;
        latitude 47.6107864;
        longitude -122.5752106;
        altitude 20;
    }
    root-authentication {
...

but from the logs, i get

psg1.psg.com jlogin error: Error: TIMEOUT reached
psg1.psg.com: missed cmd(s): show chassis hardware detail,show chassis environment,show version,show chassis ssb,show chassis scb,show chassis sfm detail,show configuration,show chassis routing-engine,show chassis fpc detail,show chassis firmware,show chassis feb,show chassis clocks,show system boot-messages
psg1.psg.com: End of run not found
=====================================


and then sometimes it works.

randy