[rancid] Mutating prompts

[heasley]

Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 07:38:13PM +0100, Howard Jones:
> My previously working multi-context ASA/FWSM script appears to have been 
> more by luck than judgement, and fails if the hostname has a '-' in it, 
> I guess because there is somewhere it is being interpreted as a regexp 
> character.

possibly; but - is only a regex atom in []s.  clogin tries to escape regex
atoms before using the prompt (see proc run_commands).

> I've just been taking a look at it again, and making a fwsmlogin from 
> clogin, which understands that the prompt changes when there's a 
> 'changeto' command to move between firewall contexts. Am I right in 
> thinking I need to redo this stuff in BOTH '*login' and '*rancid' in two 
> different languages?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Howie