[rancid] mtlogin error: Error TIMEOUT reached (2.3.8 deb)

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 26/03/15 13:13, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
> On 26/03/15 13:09, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
>> On 26/03/15 11:24, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>> On 26/03/2015 13:15, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> How can I debug, what's given to expect as timeout during rancid-run ? 
>>>>
>> [...]
>>>
>>> This is a common problem, and there's no easy way to solve it.
>>> Basically, mtrancid is scanning the output from the device line by line,
>>> expecting to find the router's cli prompt followed by a command run. It
>>> then processes the entire output until it finds the next prompt.
>>>
>>> This works well until mtrancid gets some input it's not expecting, or
>>> the input stops for whatever reason. rancid itself is in no position to
>>> figure out what the problem is, so the closest you get is the "End of
>>> run not found" message. Which essentially means "something went wrong",
>>> no more and no less.
>>>
>>> mtrancid -d <device name or ip>
>>>
>>> usually gives enough info to figure out what is really going wrong
>>>
>>
>> mmm...
>> (please note I'm on debian and done sudo su - rancid to run this from command line: )
>>
>> rancid at george:~$ PATH=$PATH:~/bin; mtrancid -d myrouter
>>
and here it is with 'time' added on to run on mtrancid:

rancid at george:~$ PATH=$PATH:~/bin; time mtrancid -d myrouter
executing mtlogin -t 120 -c"system package print detail without-paging;system routerboard print;system license print;export" myrouter
PROMPT MATCH: ] > 
HIT COMMAND:[myuser at myrouter] > system package print detail without-paging
    In SystemPackagePrintDetail: [myuser at myrouter] > system package print detail without-paging
HIT COMMAND:[myuser at myrouter] > system routerboard print
    In SystemRouterboardPrint: [myuser at myrouter] > system routerboard print
HIT COMMAND:[myuser at myrouter] > system license print
    In SystemLicensePrint: [myuser at myrouter] > system license print
HIT COMMAND:[myuser at myrouter] > export
    In Export: [myuser at myrouter] > export

real	0m45.292s
user	0m0.100s
sys	0m0.024s

HTH
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