[rancid] Re: "End of run not found" what to do?

[john heasley]

Tue, Aug 29, 2006 at 01:32:12PM +0200, Lars Lystrup Christensen:
> Hi there
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> I'm currently working on a script to collect various informations about
> some of our equipment (Nextnet Wireless Expedience).
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> I've tried to modify the "rancid" script to parse the output from my
> login script, which works quite well. However when I run my rancid
> script I get a "End of run not found".
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> I'm not quite sure where the problem is, so please give a hint :-)

what marks the end of a configuration is device dependant, but something
has to set $found_end.  This helps detect a complete config from a truncated
one.  You should compare the handling in rancid, jrancid, and cat5rancid.