[rancid] Re: f5 bigIP part 2

[Jethro R Binks]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2009, kenneth.w.sain at accenture.com wrote:

> Using rancid--2.3.2a9 on freebsd 7.1, I can successfully clogin into the
> device.
> 
> Getting anything off the device via bin/rancid or bin/control-rancid is
> another story.

...

Don't worry about control-rancid etc just now, just concentrate on running 
rancid by hand.

When I want to know what it is really doing, I might do:

 env NOPIPE=y PATH=${PATH}:/usr/local/libexec/rancid rancid -d devicename

(modify PATH to taste).

This will leave devicename.raw and devicename.new files in your current 
working dir.  The raw file is the output of the session for connecting and 
sending the commands.  Take a look through it: presumably the timeout is 
occurring because rancid isn't detecting a prompt after a command run, or 
something is confusing expect.  It may or not be obvious, but take a look 
and see.  If you see where it breaks down but don't understand why, repost 
the relevant part of the output.

Jethro.

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Jethro R Binks
Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK