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

[Drop Box]

I apologize for the delayed response.  The reported problem does not show up
in 2.3.2a9.  Thank you!

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 12:43 PM, john heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:

> Please try ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-2.3.2a9.tar.gz.
>  There
> are a few new things in there that still need some work (and other not yet
> committed), but it should fix this problem.
>
> Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 11:19:58AM -0800, 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
> > > +  [24;1Hip 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
> > > -  [24;1Hip 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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