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

[Lukasz Sokol]

On 26/03/15 12:58, Lukasz Sokol wrote:
> On 26/03/15 11:19, Tim Warnock wrote:
>>> I googled and found one occurrence on this m/l when someone asked, is the
>>> router having a lot or routes,
>>> but that, as far as I could follow, wasn't answered; in my case, the answer is
>>> YES, and NO I can't put any less on it.
>>>
>>> Hope this can still be helped ;)
>>>
>>> el es
>>
>> Ok simple test.
>>
>> How long does an /export take if you run it from ssh/winbox?
> 
> rancid at george:~$ time ~/bin/mtlogin -c "export" myrouter > /dev/null
> 
> real	0m48.548s
> user	0m0.060s
> sys	0m0.024s
> 
> and in test with a stopwatch,
> 
> (doing ssh -i my_ident myuser at myrouter, then issuing export by hand)
> 
> give or take 36s lag has been encountered
> after first 8s of running. Give or take because there were a few of them
> and not exactly sure how to catch...
> 

Looking at run_commands,

it strikes me, that sending the command, it is allowed to timeout, just like that - 

but unfortunately :

- trying to catch the timeout at first and making it go exp_continue instead, doesn't work
- trying to insert another expect clause in front of the main one, just to catch the timeout, doesn't work

Looks like this calls for a 'for' loop and checking whether the cause of expect breakout was timeout...


> hope this helps,
> 
> el es
>