[rancid] Re: Troubles getting RANCID working with Cisco

[Chris Zimmerman]

As it turned out, it was a problem with the version of Tcl.  I uninstalled
everything, and re-installed, and now it works.





 
 
 
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Chris Zimmerman
Senior Network Engineer
chrisz at urbancom.net
(708) 687-2090
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Austin Schutz [mailto:tex at off.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 4:21 PM
To: Chris Zimmerman
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] Re: Troubles getting RANCID working with Cisco

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