[rancid] Minor fix/update for hlogin ( and *login?).

[heasley]

Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 08:47:30AM +0100, Per-Olof Olsson:
> Hello
> 
> 
> Testing some minor update for hlogin (rancid 2.3.8).
> 
> Sometimes I use hlogin to login to switches but get the session filtered by
> hpuifilter. A bit hard to work with that output. I think this helps.

I've always liked that it didnt mess with my terminal; ie: truncate it to
24 lines.  but, ok; committed.

> rancid at host bin]$ diff -c hlogin.in_ORG hlogin.in
> *** hlogin.in_ORG       2013-01-21 07:05:47.357345221 +0100
> --- hlogin.in   2013-02-27 07:56:51.332898135 +0100
> ***************
> *** 328,336 ****
	...

> Testing to set negative port number to telnet shows that it don't work on RHlinux
> (from "man cloginrc" " Example: add method * {ssh} {telnet:-3000} {rsh}").
> 
> Tested "add method <hostname> {telnet:-23}"
> 
> -----------------------
> $ telnet <hostname> -23
> telnet: invalid option -- '2'
> Usage: telnet [-8] [-E] [-L] [-S tos] [-a] [-c] [-d] [-e char] [-l user]
>         [-n tracefile] [-b hostalias ] [-r]
>  [host-name [port]]
> --------------------
> 
> I have to add "--" to telnet args in hlogin,  "telnet -- $router $port"
> 
> or used positive port number and put
> ----------------------
> DEFAULT
> 	mode character
> ----------------------
> or
> ----------------------
> <hostname>
> 	mode character
> ----------------------
> in ~/.telnetrc
> 
> 
> Is telnet special for RHlinux or update needed for telnet in all *login scripts
> and/or add some notes in man page for cloginrc about ~/.telnetrc?

I dont remember which client required the -; could have been BSD/OS.  removed.

there is a note in the page referring to telnetrc; I dont want to duplicate the
manpage there, I would surely get it wrong or miss nuances of particular
implementations.