[rancid] Cisco Banners

[Todd Heide]

Yep. Could not locate an rws patch for the latest version so used 2.3.8. So far so good, this is my only hangup. 

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> On Apr 14, 2015, at 1:19 PM, heasley <heas at shrubbery.net> wrote:
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> Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 06:12:56PM +0000, Todd Heide:
>> That was the first place I looked, and do not see add prompt listed.  http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/man/cloginrc.5.html I looked through the .clogin file itself to find a way to ignore the banner.
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> I need to update those manpages; sorry.
> 
> I assumed you were using rancid >= 3.0.  This was added in 3.0.
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>> 
>>      From: heasley <heas at shrubbery.net>
>> To: Todd Heide <workwithcisco at yahoo.com> 
>> Cc: "rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net" <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net> 
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 11:36 AM
>> Subject: Re: [rancid] Cisco Banners
>> 
>> Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 04:21:46PM +0000, Todd Heide:
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>> 
>>> I am having an issue with rancid running commands, and I think I found out why, but dont know how to correct it.  When logging into a router, there is a banner which is using ############# for the box.  Looks like this is what is interfering with Rancid. Is there any work around other than removing the banner(I dont think this will go over well).
>>> banner motd ^CC
>>> ###############################################################################
>>> blahblahblah###############################################################################^C
>>> expect: does "routerr#\r\nrouter#terminal length 0\r\nrouter#" (spawn_id exp6) match regular expression "###############################################################################"? Gate "###############################################################################"? gate=no
>> 
>> see add prompt in cloginrc(5)
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