[rancid] HP Procurve 2810 with rancid v2.3.1

john heasley heas at shrubbery.net
Thu Sep 30 18:10:07 UTC 2010


Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 12:31:55PM -0400, Ian Stong:
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to get rancid v2.3.1 on freebsd to work with my HP procurve
> switches using SSH.  When I use clogin it logs in but hangs at the Press
> any key to continue prompt. And hlogin returns an error of:
> 
> hpuifilter: execlp() failed: No such file or directory
> Error: Couldn't login

make sure that the PATH of the shell running hlogin include the location
of hpuifilter.  if its via rancid-run, make sure its in the PATH within
rancid.conf

> Is it possible to get this working under v2.3.1 of rancid?  I'm nervous
> about upgrading to 2.3.5 and breaking something. Anyone have it working
> with v2.3.1?
> 
> If upgrading is the only option, what is the recommended path to be able
> to rollback if the upgrade doesn't go well?  Is it as simple as backing
> up the /home/rancid directories or are there libraries and binaries
> strewn throughout the system?

i think fbsd puts rancid stuff in /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/libexec/rancid


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