[rancid] Re: f5 bigIP part 2

[john heasley]

Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 04:36:12PM +0100, Teun Vink:
> On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 22:57 -0600, Sam Munzani wrote:
> > Here is sanitized uname -a output from a bigup 6400 ltm box.
> > 
> > Linux host-name 2.4.21-9.4.5.1049.0smp #2 SMP Wed May 14 12:50:53 PDT
> > 2008 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
> > 
> > I guess its linux now. I remember it used to be FreeBSD.
> 
> 
> The LTM 9.x series are redhat-based. The old 4.x series were BSD.
> I run that rancid script, but get some strange diffs every run, which
> are getting quite annoying. It seems as if the commands are executed in
> a different order every time.

thats sounds like something in the o/p screwing up the login script such
that prompt matching isn't functioning correctly.  you could verify that
with hlogin -d -c 'listofcommandsfromfrancid.in' host > debugoutput 2>&1
look at the output for inproper prompt matching.