[rancid] Re: missed cmd issues - "wr term"

[john heasley]

is this a solaris or linux box that does not have the expect patch (found
on the rancid web page) applied?

Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 10:40:34PM -0500, David B. Stewart:
> Thanks, but that doesn't seem to be the case here.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Austin Schutz [mailto:tex at off.org] 
> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 10:32 PM
> To: David B. Stewart
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: [rancid] missed cmd issues - "wr term"
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 09:46:27AM -0500, David B. Stewart wrote:
> > I've seen several reports by others having this same problem, but have 
> > yet to find a report of cause and resolution. RANCID was working fine 
> > for weeks, then started dropping "wr term" from the runs in an 
> > apparently random, though semi-permanent, fashion.  Once this problem 
> > hits, it doesn't seem to go away.  The nodes in question are Cisco 
> > IOS.
> > 
> > My suspicion is that it is resource problem on the rancid server.  
> > Suspicions don't count for much, though.  Can someone shed some light 
> > on the issue?
> > 
> > Sample log is shown below.  Notice that in this case, the 10.y.z.20 
> > seems to run OK, but the first two fail.  They fail consistently from 
> > the scheduled runs.  Manual clogin runs to the specific nodes have no 
> > apparent problem. Unfortunately, I know of no way to get the manual 
> > run to do the full diff and CVS archive.
> 
> 	When I have these problems I log into the offending device and run each command one by one. This almost always
> results in the device having some abnormal behavior during the command in question due to some router OS bug.
> 
> 	Austin
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Rancid-discuss mailing list
> Rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> http://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rancid-discuss