[rancid] Set per-host timeout in .cloginrc?

[heasley]

Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 05:11:06PM -0400, Michael W. Lucas:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Mikrotik that runs export very slowly. It has several
> full-route BGP peers in IPv4 and IPv6, filtering rules, and so on, so
> this isn't terribly surprising.
> 
> The default rancid timeout is 90 seconds.
> 
> Is it possible to change the timeout in .cloginrc for just this
> particular host, or do I need to edit mtlogin?

cloginrc timeout knob is supposed to provide this, but its missing in
mtlogin.  this patch should do it.

Index: bin/mtlogin.in
===================================================================
--- bin/mtlogin.in	(revision 2457)
+++ bin/mtlogin.in	(working copy)
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
 # tracks if we receive them on the command line.
 set do_passwd 1
 # Sometimes routers take awhile to answer (the default is 10 sec)
-set timeout 45
+set timeoutdflt 45
 
 # Find the user in the ENV, or use the unix userid.
 if {[ info exists env(CISCO_USER) ]} {
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@
 	-T* {
 	    if {! [ regexp .\[tT\](.+) $arg ignore timeout]} {
 		incr i
-	        set timeout [ lindex $argv $i ]
+	        set timeoutdflt [ lindex $argv $i ]
 	    }
 	# Command file
 	} -x* -
@@ -466,6 +466,12 @@
     set autoenable 1
     set enable 0
 
+    # device timeout
+    set timeout [find timeout $router]
+    if { [llength $timeout] == 0 } {
+	set timeout $timeoutdflt
+    }
+
     # Figure out passwords
     if { $do_passwd } {
       set pswd [find password $router]