[rancid] Re: Wildcards in banner potentially causing issue

[Shapery, Steve]

The devices were responding properly to a clogin -c 'command' but not to
the rancid-run script.

After digging and digging, it turned out that if I removed the 'show
version' section of the rancid script, that it successfully ran.

The devices are standard 3845's, with no unusual mods... so I have no
idea.

Oh well, at least it works now.

	-S



-----Original Message-----
From: Ed Ravin [mailto:eravin at panix.com] 
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 5:25 PM
To: Shapery, Steve
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: [rancid] Wildcards in banner potentially causing issue

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:45:29AM -0800, Shapery, Steve wrote:
>    So I have rancid running, trying to collect configs from Cisco
routers,
>    and it works dandy if I do a command-line clogin with the full
>    commands.
> 
> 
>    clogin -t 90 -c "show run" router1
> 
> 
>    however, if I run it through the rancid-run script, I get odd
errors
>    and it doesn't seem to work.
> 
> 
>    The only thing I can think of is that the login banners have & * `
and
>    & in them.
> 
> 
>    Does anyone know if I have to somehow escape those out, or do
something
>    to force the rancid script to ignore the special characters?

The RANCID FAQ ( http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/FAQ ) says:

Q. Are there any characters in the banner that rancid has problems with
OR
   I changed the device's command prompt and now collection is failing?

A. The trickiest part about clogin (et al) is recognizing the prompt
   correctly.  clogin looks for '>' and '#' to figure out if it is
logged
   in or in enable mode.  So if you have a '>' or '#' in your login
banner
   (or other motd), then clogin gets all confused and will not be able
to log
   in correctly, and thus rancid will fail.

   Don't use '>' or '#' in your prompt or in your banner or other motd.

Suggest you go through the FAQ and see if that warning or any
other section in there applies to you.  If you can't fix it, come back
here and post the exact text of the "odd errors" that you're getting.



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