[rancid] Re: Making zrancid work from cron

[john heasley]

Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 02:45:24PM +0200, Tore Anderson:
> Hi list,
> 
> I've got problems making RANCID fetch the config from a Quagga box when
> running from cron.  It works fine when running from the command line,
> but from cron I just get a "TIMEOUT reached" error in my logs.  It seems
> the problem is with the pseudo-terminal allocation.  To demonstrate:  if
> I add ?clogin -t 10 -c"show version;write term" rtr? to the rancid
> user's crontab, the mail I get in return contains:
> 
> > rtr
> > spawn ssh -c 3des -x -l rancid rtr
> > Linux rtr 2.6.32-22-server x86_64
> > Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
> > 
> > This node is configured by puppet. Local changes may be overwritten.
> > 
> > Last login: Fri Jul 30 14:22:02 2010 from 2001:db8:1002:102:214:22ff:fe12:99d9
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hello, this is Quagga (version 0.99.16).
> > 
> > Copyright 1996-2005 Kunihiro Ishiguro, et al.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > WARNING: terminal is not fully functional
> > 
> > -  (press RETURN)
> > Error: TIMEOUT reached
> 
> I tried adding ?-tt? to the ssh command line in clogin, but that had no
> effect.  It works very well when I run it from the command line myself,
> though.  Any suggestions on how to solve this would be greatly appreciated!
> 

is this directly to bgpd or via 'zebra' (or whatever that vtysh daemon is
called)?