[rancid] Re: netscreen --- more ---

[David Paul Zimmerman]

On Mar 10, 2006, at 12:32 PM, john heasley wrote:

> Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:22:53PM -0800, David Paul Zimmerman:
>> Hi, all.  I'm running nlogin/nrancid as a read-only user on our
>> NetScreens, and see things like missing "exit" lines in a "set policy"
>> section, "set policy" sections with no attendant permit or deny, stuff
>> like that where you *know* something _was_ there.
>>
>> The "set console page 0" command doesn't exist in read-only mode (it
>> errors, but continues on), so RANCID needs to deal with output that
>> pages.  My theory is subsequently that the "--- more --- " processing
>> is also eating the line after it, which manual experimentation seems 
>> to
>> bear out.
>>
>> Has anyone else seen this problem?  I'm using the nlogin/nrancid from
>> 2.3.2a3.
>
> Dont have a netscreen myself, but my best guess is that its not eating 
> a
> line but rather you're bitten by overstriking that removes the pager
> prompt.  If you use an editor that does not filter/interpret control
> characters, do the missing lines appear in the file in the repository
> or a .raw file (export NOPIPE=YES; nrancid -d host)?

Hm... I used both emacs and od on the repository file, and there's no 
sign of the missing line that I can see.  However, when I made a .raw 
file as you suggested, it looks much better.

		dp