[rancid] f5rancid.in how to ? (TMSH on BigIP)

[Alan McKinnon]

On 10/01/2014 19:05, tom gilmore wrote:
> I have been trying to get f5rancid to collect configs from our BigIP
> boxes. They are running BigIP version 11.0
> I have download several f5rancid.in patches,, but none of them seem to work.
> the most common error that I see is "command' not found when I attempt
> to run ./f5rancidin -d x.x.x.x
> I can see the @commandtable has the correct list of commands that can
> collect information from me ,, but I cannot get the script to work.
> 
> for example,, I downloaded this patch found under gossemer threads
> http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=255;list=rancid
> 
> but when I run the script,, I get these errors
> (essentially the first 50 lines of f5rancid.in are commented out,, so
> "command not found" is seen on line 51
> ******************************
>  ./f5rancid -d 10.232.96.14
> : command not found 
> : command not found 
> ./f5rancid: line 51: use: command not found
> : command not found: 
> ./f5rancid: line 52: syntax error near unexpected token `'dflV''
> '/f5rancid: line 52: `getopts('dflV');
> *******************************
> 
> Line 51 says "use Getopt::Std;"
> Line 52 -55 says 
> getopts('dflV');
> if ($opt_V) {
>     print "@PACKAGE@ @VERSION@\n";
>     exit(0);
> }


install GetOpt::Std

It's a perl module and it's missing on your system.

This is a package manager problem and is solved there; it is not caused
by rancid. All the subsequent syntax errors are caused by that module
being missing, so the perl interpreter has no idea what to do


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon at gmail.com