[rancid] problems with PowerConnect switches

['heasley']

Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 06:51:01AM +0000, Wayne Eisenberg:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: heasley [mailto:heas at shrubbery.net]
> > Sent: Friday, December 07, 2018 3:06 PM
> > To: Wayne Eisenberg <Wayne.Eisenberg at CarolinasIT.com>
> > Cc: 'rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net' <rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net>
> > Subject: Re: [rancid] problems with PowerConnect switches
> > 
> > Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 10:18:54AM +0000, Wayne Eisenberg:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I have a PowerConnect 5448 that I am having trouble with. If I run the steps
> > manually it's fine, but using rancid-run always fails.
> > >
> > > The router.db file is:
> > > pc5448;powerconnect;up
> > >
> > > The etc/rancid.types.conf section is:
> > >
> > > powerconnect;script;rancid -t powerconnect powerconnect;login;clogin
> > > powerconnect;module;dell powerconnect;inloop;dell::inloop
> > > powerconnect;command;dell::GetSystem;show system
> > > powerconnect;command;dell::GetConf;show running-config
> > >
> > > and all the info in .clogin is fine.
> > >
> > > If I manually run clogin for that switch, it has no problems. Then running
> > 'show system' and 'show running-config' gives no problems.
> 
> > 
> > meaning that
> > clogin -c 'show system;show running-config' hostname completes w/o a
> > timeout?  if so, that implies to me that either a pager is involving itself in an
> > unrecognized manner or there is other unrecognized input preventing it
> > from finding the prompt reliably, possibly due to TERM settings (and poor
> > defaults).  that could be tested, or it might debugging to, run that clogin from
> > cron to see how it acts w/o a terminal.
> > 
> 
> That results in:
> 
> User Name:admin
> Password:************
> 
> console#
> console# terminal length 0
> % Unrecognized command
> 
> What is issuing the 'terminal length 0' command?

clogin.  how is the pager disabled on that device?