[rancid] Re: Rancid and end of run issues

[Mike Ashcraft]

Gary,

This error is generated by the rrancid script and not clogin.  If this
is the only error you are seeing, clogin is likely working fine.

I recommend looking at the output of:

rrancid -d redback

(Where redback is the name of the problem router)

In debug mode, rrancid should tell you why it thinks it did not find the
end of the output.  

rrancid will also leave a file named redback.new [hostname.new] in the
current working directory which you can look through for problem output.
This file contains the output of clogin before it is filtered, sorted
and checked in to CVS.

While hacking rancid for an unsupported device, I triggered this error
numerous times.  It was most often due to failure to recognize the
router prompt. 

Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net
[mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Gary Roberts
Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 4:22 PM
To: Ed Ravin
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: [rancid] Re: Rancid and end of run issues

Correct, but i have modified my version of rrancid so the only command
its running is "show config".
So in essence, it is running the file, as i have it modified.
Nothing has been changed on the server, I've checked my yum logs, the
only upgrade that has occured was back on 24Mar07, when it download the
tzdata for the DST changes. But RANCID has been running flawlessly up
until yesterday afternoon.
My version of expect is:
[root at Rancid ~]# rpm -q expect
expect-5.42.1-1

My next step was to do an strace, so i could see what was happening at
the packet level, i was just hoping someone had ran into this before.

Thanks

GR




> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Ed Ravin <eravin at panix.com>
> To: "Gary Roberts" <groberts at hcis.net>
> Cc: "Lance" <rancid at gheek.net>, rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Date: Fri, Apr-6-2007 5:14 PM
> Subject: Re: [rancid] Re: Rancid and end of run issues
>
> On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 05:05:04PM -0500, Gary Roberts wrote:
> > I gave that a shot,. with the same results.
> > If i run clogin from the command line, it does indeed pull the
config 
> as it should.
> 
> But you aren't calling clogin the same way rrancid does - these 
> commands
> are invoked:
> 
>     "show version",
>     "dir /flash",
>     "dir /pcmcia0",
>     "dir /pcmcia1",
>     "show hardware",
>     "show chassis",
>     "show slot table",
>     "show config"
> 
> So you have to test with something like:
> 
>   clogin -c "show version;dir /flash;dir /pcmcia0; [...] ;show config"
> 
> > My first question when something stops working as it should is
> > "Whats Changed?", but in the case, i can honestly say, nothing has
> > changed as far as the router or access or the rancid server and
> > its .conf files. all is as it should be.
> 
> Have you changed anything on the server running RANCID, like upgraded
> its version of expect?
> 
> Another possible diagnostic would be running tcpdump (for telnet
> sessions) or strace/ktrace/truss (for ssh sessions) to see what
> was actually happening on the line.
> 
> 


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