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

[Lee]

On 7/15/11, Ben O'Hara <bohara at ripe.net> wrote:
>
> 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!

Great!  Thanks for confirming it works :)

Lee