[rancid] Need some Help - F5's in RANCID

[Ben O'Hara]

On 15 Jul 2011, at 02:08, Lee wrote:

> On 7/13/11, Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/30/11, Lee <ler762 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On 6/28/11, Jethro R Binks <jethro.binks at strath.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 27 Jun 2011, Lee wrote:
>  <.. snip talk about NOPIPE & line width ..>
> 
>> [prompt] ~ # bigpipe route static show^M
>> No Routing Table Entries were found.^M
>> [prompt] ~ # stty cols 160^M
>> [prompt] ~ # ls --full-time --color=never /config/ssl/ssl ^M.crt^M
>> total 3056^M
>> 
>> that space, carriage return on the echoed "ls --full-time" command
>> occurs at column 81.  Even with an "stty cols 160" added to the
>> f5rancid commandtable the darn F5 *still* splits the echoed command at
>> column 80 when rancid is called via crontab.
> 
> Sprinkle enough "s/ \015//;" lines in f5rancid after the "while
> (<INPUT>) {" and it works for me now when run from cron  (see attached
> patch)
> 
> I do not know perl; I'd appreciate it if someone could explain why
> "tr/ \015//d;" doesn't get rid of the embedded [space][cr] but "s/
> \015//;" does.
> 
> It would also be nice if someone could figure out how to change the F5
> line width to 160 chars from the default 80.  I think that'd be better
> than removing any embedded [space][cr]
> 
> Lee

Hi,

FYI, I applied this patch this morning and havent seen ant problems since, thanks!

Ben

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Ben O'Hara                        RIPE Network Coordination Center
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