[rancid] Re: control characters appearing and disappearing from saved configs

[john heasley]

Please try ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-2.3.2a9.tar.gz.  There
are a few new things in there that still need some work (and other not yet
committed), but it should fix this problem.

Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:19:58AM -0800, john heasley:
> I think I've fixed this problem already; I'll give you an image in a later
> email.
> 
> Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 09:20:49AM -0800, Drop Box:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > After adding a lot of lines to our HP switch configurations, I'm now seeing
> > rancid diffs like the one below one or two dozen times a day, on various
> > switches:
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > - -- configs/switch.example.com.    (revision 103454)
> > @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
> >      ip address dhcp-bootp
> >      exit
> >   ip authorized-managers a.b.c.d 255.0.0.0
> > - ip authorized-managers w.x.y.z 255.255.248.0
> > + ip authorized-managers w.x.y.z 255.255.248.0
> > [...]
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > - -- configs/switchexample.com.    (revision 103525)
> > @@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
> >      ip address dhcp-bootp
> >      exit
> >   ip authorized-managers a.b.c.d 255.0.0.0
> > - ip authorized-managers w.x.y.z 255.255.248.0
> > + ip authorized-managers w.x.y.z 255.255.248.0
> > [...]
> > 
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > The various configs I see this for have slight variations in length, but the
> > control character appears and disappears on the same line ("ip
> > authorized-managers w.x.y.z 255.255.248.0"), so it's not that the problem
> > always appears at line N.  I've checked out an "offending" revision and
> > verified that the control character is there.  I ran hrancid by hand maybe
> > 20 times, and the control character showed up twice.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any ideas why this might be happening?  I'm using rancid
> > 2.3.2a6 with expect 5.42.1.
> > 
> > Thanks.
> 
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