[rancid] Re: Rancid stopped working for my HP switches

[john heasley]

Fri, Apr 02, 2010 at 04:11:07PM -0800, James Zuelow:
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> > David Krider
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> > Subject: [rancid] Re: Rancid stopped working for my HP switches
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> > Just for the record, I tried it both ways, and my Procurves seem to do
> > alright with leaving that "terminal length" line alone.
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> Mine don't.  I don't get any configs at all if I leave that in.
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> It's just another example of how my rancid doesn't appear to act like anyone else's rancid, even though all I'm doing is installing the package.  Or maybe I've got knockoff Procurves.  :)

clearly it is an hp bug if you send it a command it stops functioning.
perhaps there is a more recent revision of the code.  hp does have a
history of repeating the same bugs and making gratuitous changes, as
are other vendors.

my guess here would be that the pager continues to be used and is badly
confused by a terminal length of zero, rather than just acting like cat(1).