[rancid] Re: Troubles getting RANCID working with Cisco

Austin Schutz tex at off.org
Tue Mar 14 22:21:09 UTC 2006


On Tue, Mar 14, 2006 at 03:49:37PM -0600, Chris Zimmerman wrote:
> Can anyone help?
> 
> [rancid at engineering rancid]$ /usr/local/rancid/bin/clogin 64.7.96.38
> 64.7.96.38
> spawn telnet 64.7.96.38
> parent: waiting for sync byte
> parent: telling child to go ahead
> parent: now unsynchronized from child
> spawn: returns {14774}
> 
...
> Trying 64.7.96.38...
> Connected to 64.7.96.38.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> User Access Verification
> 
> Username: 

> expect: does "Trying 64.7.96.38...\r\r\nConnected to 64.7.96.38.\r\r\nEscape
> character is '^]'.\r\r\n" (spawn_id exp4) match glob pattern "Host is
> unreachable"? no
...

	It looks like expect isn't seeing anything after the Escape
character line. From here that would seem to be a bug in your version
of expect, unless your telnet client is doing something super funky.

	Austin



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