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

[Michael W. Lucas]

Patch works. Timeout is successfully set, changes checked in.

Thank you!

==ml

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 03:04:26PM -0700, heasley wrote:
> 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]

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