[rancid] francid on MLX and edge case behaviors.

[Nick Buraglio]

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This began on the f-nsp list here: http://www.mail-archive.com/foundry-nsp@puck.nether.net/msg01603.html
Anyway, I was having trouble getting flogin to work against MLX code  
3.9.00a over ssh.  Long story short, the user I had set up had lower  
privilege and couldn't support the "skip-page-display" command that  
francid was expecting.  Since I have more experience with pretty much  
every network vendor other than foundry, I thought this may just be  
what I like to call a "foundry-ism".  Anyway, I solved this (possibly  
not the best way) by just changing flogin to call "terminal length 0"  
since the MLX code supports it and there are no foundries managed by  
this instance of rancid that don't.


If anyone happens to have the one-off problems that I had, here is a  
simple fix:

- --- flogin.orig	2009-02-25 17:07:12.000000000 -0600
+++ flogin	2009-02-25 15:58:49.000000000 -0600
@@ -506,7 +506,8 @@
      global in_proc
      set in_proc 1

- -    send "skip-page-display\r"
+#    send "skip-page-display\r"
+    send "terminal length 0\r"
      expect -re "$prompt" {}

      set commands [split $command \;]
@@ -677,7 +678,8 @@
  	}
      } elseif { $do_script } {
  	# fucking foundry
- -	send "skip-page-display\r"
+	#send "skip-page-display\r"
+	send "terminal length 0\r"
  	expect -re $prompt	{}
  	source $sfile
  	catch {close};



I thought I'd just post what I did, even if it is suboptimal, just in  
case it could help someone else down the line.


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Nick Buraglio
Network Engineer, CITES, University of Illinois
GPG key 0x2E5B44F4
Phone: 217.244.6428
buraglio at illinois.edu



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