[rancid] Rancid issues

[john heasley]

Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 02:44:01PM +0000, john heasley:
> Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 12:10:35PM +0200, Chris Knipe:
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Rancid setup and everything's fine form what I can tell.  I'm getting a
> > strange error I haven't seen before:
> > 
> > router.db:
> > za-ctn-pe01;mikrotik;up
> > 
> > bash-4.2$ ./bin/rancid -d -t mikrotik za-ctn-pe01
> > loadtype: device type mikrotik
> > loadtype: found device type mikrotik in /srv/rancid/etc/rancid.types.base
> > executing mtlogin -t 90 -c"" za-ctn-pe01
> > inloop is not configured for device type mikrotik at ./bin/rancid line 130.
> > 
> > Not quite sure what is happening at this stage...
> 
> bin/rancid does not work this way with scripts that have not been converted
> to modules.  It could be made to work, I just had not anticipated it.  you
> must run the script itself.
> 
> mtrancid [opts] hostname
> 

I've fixed this here:
commit 4750bf3ee31cd11a299a1dfee2c8c36020f41479
    rancid, rancid.pm: handle non-modulized rancid scripts in the rancid script
    by exec()ing the real script
    
    https://www.shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2019-August/010820.html