rancid hangs due to expect, ssh, or cisco?

[Johan Grip]

On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 23:08 Andrew Partan wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 31, 2002 at 02:49:48PM -0600, Zhang, Anchi wrote:
>> My temporary workaround to this problem is
>> 
>> log2# diff clogin clogin.orig
>> 457c457
>> <           send "term length 100\r"
>> ---
>> >           send "term length 0\r"
>
>Well that is whacko.  Is 'term length 0' not working on your router?
>	--asp

I have the same problem here. Commands doing a lot of output hangs.
If I do clogin -c "wr ter" <somerouter> on a device with a large config
clogin hangs. Likewise with "sh cam dyn" on some catalysts as well.

I've basically used the same workaround, but also had to add a prompt 
because one of my Cats changed the more prompt.

--SNIP--
--- clogin.in   Tue Jul 30 07:14:10 2002
+++ /home/rancid/bin/clogin     Fri Feb  7 13:00:40 2003
@@ -452,9 +454,9 @@
     # skip if its an extreme.
     if { [ string compare "extreme" "$platform" ] } {
        if [ regexp -- ".*> .*enable" "$prompt" ] {
-           send "set length 0\r"
+           send "set length 100\r"
        } else {
-           send "term length 0\r"
+           send "term length 100\r"
        }
        regsub -all "\[)(]" $prompt {\\&} reprompt
        # match cisco config mode prompts too, but not for catalyst ie:
(enable)
@@ -496,6 +498,9 @@
                -re "^ --More--\[^\n\r]*"       {
                                                  send " "
                                                  exp_continue }
+               -re "^--More--\[^\n\r]*"        {
+                                                 send " "
+                                                 exp_continue }
                -re "^<-+ More -+>\[^\n\r]*"    {
                                                  send_user --
"$expect_out(buffer)"
                                                  send " "
@@ -526,6 +531,9 @@
                -re "^ --More--\[^\n\r]*"       {
                                                  send " "
                                                  exp_continue }
+               -re "^--More--\[^\n\r]*"        {
+                                                 send " "
+                                                 exp_continue }
                -re "^<-+ More -+>\[^\n\r]*"    {
                                                  send_user --
"$expect_out(buffer)"
                                                  send " "
--SNIP--
Could probably be solved in a nicer way by adjusting the regexp above it,
but I had
to fix it somewhat in a rush, and since forgotten about it.

Regards,
  Johan