Bug when using SSH on CatOS devices

[john heasley]

Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 01:33:33PM +0200, Michael Lyngb?l:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using RANCID 2.3.1 to get config from a bunch of Cisco 6500 running
> CatOS 6.4.
> 
> Login is via SSH (on FreeBSD 5.3 w/ OpenSSH 3.8.1p1).
> 
> cat5rancid has the following code at around line 1062:
> 
>    TOP: while(<INPUT>) {
>        tr/\015//d;
>        if (/> \(enable\) ?exit$/) {
>            $clean_run=1;
>            last;
>        }
> 
> where $clean_run would be set to true if the prompt matches 'exit'.
> However when using SSH the exit becomes:
> 
>    Switch> (enable)Connection to switch.foo.bar closed by remote host.
>    Connection to switch.foo.bar closed.

does it do this when you ssh in manually?

> compared to this using telnet:
> 
>    Switch> (enable)exit
>    Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> which will match and set $clean_run to true. Hence $clean_run will
> remain false when using SSH, making cat5rancid fail.
> 
> A quick hack is to just do '$clean_run = 1' at the end of the while()
> loop, but it doesn't fix it for real.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> /Michael
> 
> -- 
> Michael Lyngb?l -- michael at lyngbol dot dk
> Network Architect, AS3292 TDC, IP?backbone