[rancid] rancid "losing" characters

[Gavin McCullagh]

Doh. You can ignore this :-)
 On 18 Oct 2013 08:48, "Gavin McCullagh" <gmccullagh at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I will check this for certain and send on an updated version to the list
> if necessary.
>
> Gavin
>  On 16 Oct 2013 20:28, "heasley" <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
>
>> Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 10:30:02AM -0400, Stephen Griffin:
>> > So, I have a version of rancid 2.3.8 installed, and I've been noticing
>> on
>> > some of our Foundry/Brocade gear that some commands are failing because
>> a
>> > character is lost.. for example, skip-page-dilay instead of
>> > skip-page-display.
>> >
>> > Our prior version of rancid was quite old (so old that no one really was
>> > quite sure of what version it was), and we don't recall seeing this
>> > behaviour. It feels like a buffer being exhausted, but 2.3.8 uses
>> > send_human, which should be slowing things down.
>> >
>> > The version of expect wasn't changed, and is 5.43.0
>> >
>> > We did fold in some of our older custom changes, but I have a difficult
>> > time believing those would impact lost characters.
>> >
>> > Has anyone run into this or something similar?
>>
>> there once was a problem with hpuifilter that caused this, but that would
>> not affect foundry, only hp/hlogin.  perhaps that was part of your
>> changes?
>>
>> otherwise, i'd suspect expect.
>>
>> > I did a test run, by sending "show 802" to a bunch of devices, and came
>> up
>> > with:
>> >       1 e
>> >     145 exit
>> >       1 sh
>> >       1 show 02
>> >       1 show 80
>> >     145 show 802
>> >       1 show802
>> >       1 skip-page-ay
>> >     148 skip-page-display
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Stephen
>> > --
>> > Stephen A. Griffin
>> > Network Engineer
>> > Google Acquisition Netops
>>
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