[rancid] Re: Increasing Timeout For RANCID

[Jose Madrid]

Larry,

Take a look at bin/clogin  on line 80.  Mine sets the timeout to 45 seconds.
 Maybe you want to extend this??

# Sometimes routers take awhile to answer (the default is 10 sec)
set timeout 45


2010/2/10 Kemp, Larry <Larry.Kemp at usmetrotel.com>

>  I appreciate your help very much. I found something that sounds familiar
> here in the archives:
> http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2007-October/002540.html
>
> I am in a bit over my head if I have to “pass a parameter” as you say, or
> as this link above discusses “modify clogin”. Not sure exactly how I would
> do either; could you please be more specific in what I need to do. Thanks
> again.
>
> LK
>
>
>
> *From:* Brian Lam [mailto:blam at rockyou.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 09, 2010 9:03 PM
> *To:* Kemp, Larry
> *Cc:* rancid
> *Subject:* Re: [rancid] Increasing Timeout For RANCID
>
>
>
> looks like you should pass it as a parameter instead of modifying clogin...
>
>  2010/2/9 Kemp, Larry <Larry.Kemp at usmetrotel.com>
>
> I have some Cisco 2950’s that I need RANCID to reach via SSH. Each time
> rancid-run executes (either manually by me or via the cron) I see in the log
> that there is a clogin error for these devices. I am able to manually login
> by entering: “ssh rancid at 172.20.30.1” as user rancid. I am able to login
> to these devices and then enter my enable password and run privledged
> commands, however to reach a password prompt takes a good 7 seconds because
> of how me have to route to these devices. The devices are also small and
> contain little memory.
>
>
>
> I read here: http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/man/clogin.1.html about the
> -t option to increase the time that Rancid waits before erroring out
> waiting for a login prompt. I also looked in the
> /usr/local/rancid/bin/clogin file to see if there was a place for me to
> increase this timeout limit. I am not sure if this is where I need to edit.
> Can anyone that has done this before point me in the right direction to
> increase the login timeout.
>
>
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