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

[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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