[rancid] "End of run not found" when running with a DLink switch

Roberto Greiner roberto at nead.unesp.br
Thu Apr 30 18:47:41 UTC 2015


On 30/04/2015 15:20, heasley wrote:
> Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 02:54:25PM -0300, Roberto Greiner:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to set rancid to read the configuration for a D-Link DGS-3420
>> switch, but I'm hitting on an error where rancid fails to get the switch
>> configurations with an "End of run not found" message.
>>
>> I'm running rancid 3.2 in a Debian 7 box, with cvsweb for reading the
>> cvs. Rancid is working properly, as I'm getting the all the configs for
>> some 3Com switches (3Com 4500 and 3Com 4800).
>>
>> I added the following line do router.db:
>> dlink-poe-datacenter1.<my-domain>;dell;up
>>
>> Running "rancid -t dell -C dlink-poe-datacenter1.<mydomain>" I get the
>> following output:
>> dllogin -t 300 -c 'show switch;show config current_config'
>> dlink-poe-datacenter1.<mydomain>
>>
>> Running "time dllogin -t 300 -c 'show switch;show config current_config'
>> dlink-poe-datacenter1.<mydomain>" (notice 'time' at the beginning), I
>> get all the configs for the switch, and a running time of ~19 seconds.
>> So, the switch is answering and sending all the config quickly,
>> indicating also that there is no timeout problem.
>>
>> Running "rancid -t dell -d dlink-poe-datacenter1.<mydomain>", returns
>> the following output (also after ~19 seconds):
>> HIT COMMAND:DGS-3420-28PC:admin#show switch
>>     In GetSystem: DGS-3420-28PC:admin#show switch
>> HIT COMMAND:DGS-3420-28PC:admin#show config current_config
>>     In GetConf: DGS-3420-28PC:admin#show config current_config
>> dlink-poe-datacenter1.<mydomain>: End of run not found
>> dlink-poe-datacenter1.<mydomain>: End of run not found
>> #-------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> I've used  'NOPIPE=yes;export NOPIPE' to generate the output from the
>> switch, and rancid does indeed read everything from the dlink switch.
>> The .raw file ends with the following:
>> DGS-3420-28PC:admin#logoutConnection to dlink-poe-datacenter1.<mydomain>
>> closed by remote host.
>> Connection to dlink-poe-datacenter1.<mydomain> closed.
>>
>> My .cloginrc has the following entries:
>> add cyphertype *               
>> {aes128-ctr,aes192-ctr,aes256-ctr,aes128-cbc,aes192-cbc,aes256-cbc}
>> add method * ssh
>> add user dlink* admin
>> add password dlink* <somepassword>
>> add autoenable dlink*   1
>>
>> Could somebody help me out? I don't know what else I should do.  I think
>> it' probably some simple setting, but I don't know what else is missing.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> Roberto Greiner
> Try this patch and let us know if it fixes the issue:
>
> Index: dllogin.in
> ===================================================================
> --- dllogin.in	(revision 3088)
> +++ dllogin.in	(working copy)
> @@ -506,6 +506,14 @@
>  source_password_file $password_file
>  set in_proc 0
>  set exitval 0
> +# if we have dont have a tty, we need some additional terminal settings
> +if [catch {open /dev/tty w} ttyid] {
> +    # no tty, ie: cron
> +    set spawnopts "-nottycopy"
> +    set stty_init "cols 132"
> +} else {
> +    catch {close ttyid} reason
> +}
>  foreach router [lrange $argv $i end] {
>      set router [string tolower $router]
>      send_user "$router\n"
>
>
No, it didn't help:

rancid at server:/etc/rancid/bin$ rancid -t dell -d
dlink-poe-datacenter1.<mydomain>
loadtype: device type dell
loadtype: found device type dell in /etc/rancid/etc/rancid.types.base
executing dllogin -t 300 -c"show switch;show config current_config"
dlink-poe-datacenter1.<mydomain>
HIT COMMAND:DGS-3420-28PC:admin#show switch
    In GetSystem: DGS-3420-28PC:admin#show switch
HIT COMMAND:DGS-3420-28PC:admin#show config current_config
    In GetConf: DGS-3420-28PC:admin#show config current_config
dlink-poe-datacenter1.<mydomain>: End of run not found
dlink-poe-datacenter1.<mydomain>: End of run not found
#-------------------------------------------------------------------

Roberto Greiner

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