[rancid] Re: FreeBSD 7.0 + Expect 5.43.0 -- Do I need to patch expect?

[john heasley]

Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:35:52PM -0600, Sam Munzani:
> I had similar issues a few months ago. Instead of spending time on 
> debug, I chose to use the source from shruberry.net(2.3.2a7 version) 
> instead of ports and used expect version 5.44.1.7. Everything seems to 
> work with this combination.

I find that confusing.  I wouldn't expect (pun not intended) that the
version of rancid would matter here, unless you'd gone back quite far.
I suspect it may have found a different version of expect/tcl.

To answer eric, there was a "normal" and devel version of the expect fbsd
port.  Neither version worked properly.  I haven't looked at them recently,
so they may have changed.

> Thanks,
> Sam
> >Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 03:47:39PM -0800, Eric Cables:
> >  
> >>Is this something I can do when I discover the process is hung, or 
> >>something
> >>that has to be prepared before it hangs?  For example, if I come back into
> >>the office on Monday to find RANCID hung, is there anything I can do to
> >>collect forensics as to what caused it to hang?
> >>    
> >
> >I don't believe so.  Looking back, Randy has already provided enough to
> >identify the problem and access to his machine.  So, I need to find the
> >time to debug it.
> >
> >If anyone with the knowledge to debug it wants to work on it; my notes
> >indicate that we found that globs are broken.  since, there may have been
> >other changes with fbsd ports that have changed that.
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