[rancid] Help for nlogin and Netscreen

[Craig Ayliffe]

Hi,

Apologies the link that failed was meant to be:
http://www.shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/rancid-discuss

It is found on this page: http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/#help


Yes agreed it is a broken implementation of the CLI.
I will take a look at the -s option.

Thanks,

Craig

On 6 June 2014 03:53, <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net> wrote:

> Thu, Jun 05, 2014 at 03:15:41PM +1000, Craig Ayliffe:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Firstly I tried to subscribe to the mailing list at
> > http://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/ - but get a 404 error
> > going to that page.
>
> that url looks fine to me.  in the logs, i see some failures with bad urls,
> which might have been you.  if you can verify what url doesnt work and
> where
> you found the url or the referring page, i'll look.
>
> > Anyway my problem today is trying to run the command:
> >    nlogin -t 90 -f vfw.cloginrc -c "exec nsrp sync global-config
> check-sum"
> > hostname
> >
> > It runs the command successfully but then hangs waiting to finish.
> > The output of the command (configuration in sync) is printed out after
> the
> > prompt is displayed which seems to get nlogin out of sync - still looking
> > for the prompt which it doesn't see again.
> >
> > Attached is the debug of the commands being run.
> >
> > Below is it running without debug.
> > ==============================================
> > craiga at syd-monitor-01:~/juniper$ /tmp/nlogin.3.1 -t 90 -f vfw.cloginrc
> -c
> > "exec nsrp sync global-config check-sum" bne-vfw-1b
> > bne-vfw-1b
> > spawn ssh -c 3des -x -l craiga bne-vfw-1b
> > craiga at bne-vfw-1b's password:
> > Remote Management Console
> > BNE-VFW-1b(B)->
> > BNE-VFW-1b(B)-> set console page 0
> > BNE-VFW-1b(B)-> exec nsrp sync global-config check-sum
> > *BNE-VFW-1b(B)-> configuration in sync*
> >
> >
> > ^Ccraiga at syd-monitor-01:~/juniper$
> > ==============================================
> >
> > As far as I can see this is due to Netscreen running this command in the
> > background and it returns the display later on after the new prompt is
> > already there.
> > This doesn't happen when I run the 'get' commands in Netscreen.
> >
> > Any ideas on how to fix this would be awesome thanks
>
> eh, you could do that with a script via nlogin -s.  but, once it receives a
> new prompt, the login scripts assume the command is done.  to that do a cmd
> in the background is a completely broken cli way to do it, imo, and i'd
> complain to the vendor.
>
> see the share dir of the dist for -s examples.
>
>
>
-- 
Craig Ayliffe
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