[rancid] Re: Dell Powerconnect switches - problem and suggestion

[Jeremy Singletary]

Looks like there are some invisible characters showing up in the pager
in newer Dells.  Download this version of dlogin, and let us know if it
resolves the issue.

http://www.rickyninja.net/rancid/dlogin-dev

Thanks,
Jeremy

On 08/14/09, George Hills <george at brightbox.co.uk> said:
> Hi,
> 
> My thanks to Jeremy Singletary for his drancid/dlogin scripts, and Nate
> Steffen for his updates and email help.
> 
> I've had a couple of different problems trying to get RANCID working
> with some Dell Powerconnect switches recently.
> 
> I'm using rancid 2.3.2a7 from the Ubuntu package on Ubuntu Hardy amd64.
> 
> My Powerconnects are 6248s running 2.0.1.2 and 2.2.0.3 and 5324s running
> 2.0.0.40.
> 
> The 6248s had an easy problem - the dlogin script is sending "exit" and
> expecting to get out, but that only takes it out of enable mode. It then
> needs to send "quit" (*not* "exit" again) afterwards to get out.
> 
> I bodged this by just adding a line:
> 
> strowger at beast:~$ diff dlogin dlogin.gh
> 672a673
> > 	dsend "quit\r"
> 
> 
> On the 5348 (where "exit" from enable mode logs you off...sigh...) I
> think there's a problem with the pager. My "more" prompts look like
> 
> "More: <space>,  Quit: q, One line: <return> "
> 
> and dlogin freezes when it sees one. Other than that it works fine. I
> guess there's a problem with the regex but I can't work out what it is.
> Would be grateful for any suggestions.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> -- 
> George Hills
> Systems Administrator
> Brightbox
> http://www.brightbox.co.uk/
> 
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