[rancid] duplicated characters

[john heasley]

Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:52:33AM -0600, Corey Edwards:
> > either way, if you can capture clogin -d -c 'show running' o/p where this
> > occurs, it should at least reveal where the bug is.
> 
> I captured this output, but unfortunately it was rife with passwords. I
> trimmed it down to what I hope is still a useful summary. In this
> example the duplicated character showed up in the word "permitt".
> 
> http://pastebin.com/epUCPr2p

-expect: does "access-list 1 permit x.x.x.101\r\naccess-li" (spawn_id exp6) match regular expression "\u0008+"? (No Gate, RE only) gate=yes re=no
+expect: does "access-list 1 permitt x.x.x.101\r\naccess-l" (spawn_id exp6) match regular expression "\u0008+"? (No Gate, RE only) gate=yes re=no

its occuring inside tcl or expect.  i suspect its the same problem that i
had with hpuifilter when some linux users started upgrading.  I dont know
what the cause is, but i'd look for old versions of libc and internationization
libraries that tcl or expect are linked with.

> > you can also try rebuilding tcl and expect w/o internationalization.
> 
> I could not find any way to do this.

hrm, there doesnt appear to be an easy way to disable it in expect.