[rancid] Possible buffering issue

[heasley]

Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:52:12PM -0500, Tuc:
> Hi,
> 
> We have an F5 that we are trying to capture the output from. We have a 
> modified version of the f5tmshrancid running. We're running into an 
> issue where we have a pretty huge "send" line for a ltm monitor https . 
> Its 5190 characters. We seem to be running into the issue where every  
> it seems to drop characters one run, get some/most back the next run. 
> Its pretty annoying to constantly get the emails about it.
> 
> Any ideas how to resolve this? Should I be sticking a terminal length 
> in somewhere?

what does the script use to login?  i can only imagine a) old version of
hpuifilter, b) its spitting out terminal manipulation control characters
that are trashing the output.

debug the latter with NOPIPE=YES and -d to the rancid script; then look at
the output in the .raw file.  if it has control characters, try using
hpuifilter like hrancid does.