[rancid] Re: Infinate loop on clogin

[Michael Stefaniuc]

Sutherland, James wrote:
> Interestingly we managed to accidentally get rancid set so that an
> Efficient 5871 was set as a cisco.
> 
> What resulted was an infinite loop that causes rancid to hang forever
> until the telnet to that device is killed.
> 
> I wasn't sure if this would be considered a bug, but I thought I'd send
> it to this list as an example of this problem, which we've seen several
> times.
Call clogin with -t to give it a timeout. rancid uses clogin -t 90 to 
prevent such loops being to disastrous.

bye
	michael

> 
> Example:
> Fri 8:58am {rancid at prometheus:[~/bin]} ./clogin 172.28.41.69
> 172.28.41.69
> spawn telnet 172.28.41.69
> Trying 172.28.41.69...
> Connected to 172.28.41.69.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
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> ^C
> Fri 8:58am {rancid at prometheus:[~/bin]}
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