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> Ive been using rancid in various forms for over a year now, but I have
> never been able to have it successfully acquire the config from a
> catalyst 5505 (or a older 2900).

My usual diagnositic procedure for this sort of thing is:

- Make sure that the appropriate *login (clogin for cat5s) works.
This tests to make sure you don't have routing or firewall types
of issues, or dns or hostname errors, and that your .cloginrc
settings are correct.

- See if you can send commands to the router - something like
clogin -c "command1;command2"
This makes sure that the this basic function of clogin is working.
Typical problems here are where clogin does not recognize the
router prompt correctly.

- Then see if the correct rancid commands works against the router
- "cat5rancid router" in this case. You should get a router.new
file if it does. Otherwise try "cat5rancid -d router" and see
if you can figure out what is going wrong.

If all of this works, then make sure that you have the correct
router name in router.db and check the log file for errors.

In any case, I suspect the problem is in your .cloginrc. I always
put things like passwords & the like inside of {} to get around
expect goo. [expect is a rather fragile program.]

> add user ptldme-swt* XXXX
> add enableprompt ptldme-swt* Enter password:
> add password ptldme-swt* {XXXXXXX} {XXXXXX}

I'd change these to:
add user ptldme-swt* {XXXX}
add enableprompt ptldme-swt* {Enter password:}
add password ptldme-swt* {XXXXXXX} {XXXXXX}

I'm also not sure if you need to set the enableprompt; I've not
done that on the cat5s I've had.
--asp

I tried the clogin test, clogin -c "show ver" ptldme-swt01

It accesses the router and sits the prompt, which would lead me to
believe that it doesn't recognize the prompt.

What's the best way to approach this, what should the prompt be?
Currently its ptldme-swt01:

Joe Marr
Network Engineer
Roadrunner

"I do not hate my enemies. After all, I made them." - Red Skelton


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net
[mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Partan
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 12:02 AM
To: jmarr at twmaine.com
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: problems with rancid and catalyst

> Ive been using rancid in various forms for over a year now, but I have
> never been able to have it successfully acquire the config from a
> catalyst 5505 (or a older 2900).

My usual diagnositic procedure for this sort of thing is:

- Make sure that the appropriate *login (clogin for cat5s) works.
This tests to make sure you don't have routing or firewall types
of issues, or dns or hostname errors, and that your .cloginrc
settings are correct.

- See if you can send commands to the router - something like
clogin -c "command1;command2"
This makes sure that the this basic function of clogin is working.
Typical problems here are where clogin does not recognize the
router prompt correctly.

- Then see if the correct rancid commands works against the router
- "cat5rancid router" in this case. You should get a router.new
file if it does. Otherwise try "cat5rancid -d router" and see
if you can figure out what is going wrong.

If all of this works, then make sure that you have the correct
router name in router.db and check the log file for errors.

In any case, I suspect the problem is in your .cloginrc. I always
put things like passwords & the like inside of {} to get around
expect goo. [expect is a rather fragile program.]

> add user ptldme-swt* XXXX
> add enableprompt ptldme-swt* Enter password:
> add password ptldme-swt* {XXXXXXX} {XXXXXX}

I'd change these to:
add user ptldme-swt* {XXXX}
add enableprompt ptldme-swt* {Enter password:}
add password ptldme-swt* {XXXXXXX} {XXXXXX}

I'm also not sure if you need to set the enableprompt; I've not
done that on the cat5s I've had.
--asp

I had a similar problem - try setting your path to ptldme-swt01>

rancid appears to expect a ">" suffix on the prompt.

Dave LaPorte

--
David LaPorte
Network Engineer
Harvard University Network Operations Center
--------------------------------------------
Email: david_laporte at harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 496-7462
Mobile: (617) 429-8458

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net]On Behalf Of Joe Marr
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 1:49 PM
> To: 'Andrew Partan'
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: RE: problems with rancid and catalyst
>
>
> I tried the clogin test, clogin -c "show ver" ptldme-swt01
>
> It accesses the router and sits the prompt, which would lead me to
> believe that it doesn't recognize the prompt.
>
> What's the best way to approach this, what should the prompt be?
> Currently its ptldme-swt01:
>
> Joe Marr
> Network Engineer
> Roadrunner
>
> "I do not hate my enemies. After all, I made them." - Red Skelton
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Partan
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 12:02 AM
> To: jmarr at twmaine.com
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: problems with rancid and catalyst
>
> > Ive been using rancid in various forms for over a year now, but I have
> > never been able to have it successfully acquire the config from a
> > catalyst 5505 (or a older 2900).
>
> My usual diagnositic procedure for this sort of thing is:
>
> - Make sure that the appropriate *login (clogin for cat5s) works.
> This tests to make sure you don't have routing or firewall types
> of issues, or dns or hostname errors, and that your .cloginrc
> settings are correct.
>
> - See if you can send commands to the router - something like
> clogin -c "command1;command2"
> This makes sure that the this basic function of clogin is working.
> Typical problems here are where clogin does not recognize the
> router prompt correctly.
>
> - Then see if the correct rancid commands works against the router
> - "cat5rancid router" in this case. You should get a router.new
> file if it does. Otherwise try "cat5rancid -d router" and see
> if you can figure out what is going wrong.
>
> If all of this works, then make sure that you have the correct
> router name in router.db and check the log file for errors.
>
> In any case, I suspect the problem is in your .cloginrc. I always
> put things like passwords & the like inside of {} to get around
> expect goo. [expect is a rather fragile program.]
>
> > add user ptldme-swt* XXXX
> > add enableprompt ptldme-swt* Enter password:
> > add password ptldme-swt* {XXXXXXX} {XXXXXX}
>
> I'd change these to:
> add user ptldme-swt* {XXXX}
> add enableprompt ptldme-swt* {Enter password:}
> add password ptldme-swt* {XXXXXXX} {XXXXXX}
>
> I'm also not sure if you need to set the enableprompt; I've not
> done that on the cat5s I've had.
> --asp
>

Great this works!

Joe Marr
Network Engineer
Roadrunner

"I do not hate my enemies. After all, I made them." - Red Skelton


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-rancid-discuss@shrubbery.net
[mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of David LaPorte
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:06 PM
To: jmarr at twmaine.com; 'Andrew Partan'
Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: RE: problems with rancid and catalyst

I had a similar problem - try setting your path to ptldme-swt01>

rancid appears to expect a ">" suffix on the prompt.

Dave LaPorte

--
David LaPorte
Network Engineer
Harvard University Network Operations Center
--------------------------------------------
Email: david_laporte at harvard.edu
Phone: (617) 496-7462
Mobile: (617) 429-8458

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net]On Behalf Of Joe Marr
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 1:49 PM
> To: 'Andrew Partan'
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: RE: problems with rancid and catalyst
>
>
> I tried the clogin test, clogin -c "show ver" ptldme-swt01
>
> It accesses the router and sits the prompt, which would lead me to
> believe that it doesn't recognize the prompt.
>
> What's the best way to approach this, what should the prompt be?
> Currently its ptldme-swt01:
>
> Joe Marr
> Network Engineer
> Roadrunner
>
> "I do not hate my enemies. After all, I made them." - Red Skelton
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Partan
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 12:02 AM
> To: jmarr at twmaine.com
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: Re: problems with rancid and catalyst
>
> > Ive been using rancid in various forms for over a year now, but I
have
> > never been able to have it successfully acquire the config from a
> > catalyst 5505 (or a older 2900).
>
> My usual diagnositic procedure for this sort of thing is:
>
> - Make sure that the appropriate *login (clogin for cat5s) works.
> This tests to make sure you don't have routing or firewall types
> of issues, or dns or hostname errors, and that your .cloginrc
> settings are correct.
>
> - See if you can send commands to the router - something like
> clogin -c "command1;command2"
> This makes sure that the this basic function of clogin is working.
> Typical problems here are where clogin does not recognize the
> router prompt correctly.
>
> - Then see if the correct rancid commands works against the router
> - "cat5rancid router" in this case. You should get a router.new
> file if it does. Otherwise try "cat5rancid -d router" and see
> if you can figure out what is going wrong.
>
> If all of this works, then make sure that you have the correct
> router name in router.db and check the log file for errors.
>
> In any case, I suspect the problem is in your .cloginrc. I always
> put things like passwords & the like inside of {} to get around
> expect goo. [expect is a rather fragile program.]
>
> > add user ptldme-swt* XXXX
> > add enableprompt ptldme-swt* Enter password:
> > add password ptldme-swt* {XXXXXXX} {XXXXXX}
>
> I'd change these to:
> add user ptldme-swt* {XXXX}
> add enableprompt ptldme-swt* {Enter password:}
> add password ptldme-swt* {XXXXXXX} {XXXXXX}
>
> I'm also not sure if you need to set the enableprompt; I've not
> done that on the cat5s I've had.
> --asp
>

perhaps what we need is a .cloginrc switch which allows the prompt to
be adjusted?

Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:56:07PM -0400, Joe Marr:
> Great this works!
>
> Joe Marr
> Network Engineer
> Roadrunner
>
> "I do not hate my enemies. After all, I made them." - Red Skelton
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of David LaPorte
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:06 PM
> To: jmarr at twmaine.com; 'Andrew Partan'
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: RE: problems with rancid and catalyst
>
> I had a similar problem - try setting your path to ptldme-swt01>
>
> rancid appears to expect a ">" suffix on the prompt.
>
> Dave LaPorte
>
> --
> David LaPorte
> Network Engineer
> Harvard University Network Operations Center
> --------------------------------------------
> Email: david_laporte at harvard.edu
> Phone: (617) 496-7462
> Mobile: (617) 429-8458
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net]On Behalf Of Joe Marr
> > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 1:49 PM
> > To: 'Andrew Partan'
> > Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: RE: problems with rancid and catalyst
> >
> >
> > I tried the clogin test, clogin -c "show ver" ptldme-swt01
> >
> > It accesses the router and sits the prompt, which would lead me to
> > believe that it doesn't recognize the prompt.
> >
> > What's the best way to approach this, what should the prompt be?
> > Currently its ptldme-swt01:
> >
> > Joe Marr
> > Network Engineer
> > Roadrunner
> >
> > "I do not hate my enemies. After all, I made them." - Red Skelton
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Andrew Partan
> > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 12:02 AM
> > To: jmarr at twmaine.com
> > Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: Re: problems with rancid and catalyst
> >
> > > Ive been using rancid in various forms for over a year now, but I
> have
> > > never been able to have it successfully acquire the config from a
> > > catalyst 5505 (or a older 2900).
> >
> > My usual diagnositic procedure for this sort of thing is:
> >
> > - Make sure that the appropriate *login (clogin for cat5s) works.
> > This tests to make sure you don't have routing or firewall types
> > of issues, or dns or hostname errors, and that your .cloginrc
> > settings are correct.
> >
> > - See if you can send commands to the router - something like
> > clogin -c "command1;command2"
> > This makes sure that the this basic function of clogin is working.
> > Typical problems here are where clogin does not recognize the
> > router prompt correctly.
> >
> > - Then see if the correct rancid commands works against the router
> > - "cat5rancid router" in this case. You should get a router.new
> > file if it does. Otherwise try "cat5rancid -d router" and see
> > if you can figure out what is going wrong.
> >
> > If all of this works, then make sure that you have the correct
> > router name in router.db and check the log file for errors.
> >
> > In any case, I suspect the problem is in your .cloginrc. I always
> > put things like passwords & the like inside of {} to get around
> > expect goo. [expect is a rather fragile program.]
> >
> > > add user ptldme-swt* XXXX
> > > add enableprompt ptldme-swt* Enter password:
> > > add password ptldme-swt* {XXXXXXX} {XXXXXX}
> >
> > I'd change these to:
> > add user ptldme-swt* {XXXX}
> > add enableprompt ptldme-swt* {Enter password:}
> > add password ptldme-swt* {XXXXXXX} {XXXXXX}
> >
> > I'm also not sure if you need to set the enableprompt; I've not
> > done that on the cat5s I've had.
> > --asp
> >

That would be best, at some point Ill run into an issue with some other
software that expects the prompt to be formatted a different way.

Joe Marr
Network Engineer
Roadrunner

"I do not hate my enemies. After all, I made them." - Red Skelton


-----Original Message-----
From: john heasley [mailto:heas@shrubbery.net]
Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 3:58 PM
To: Joe Marr
Cc: david_laporte at harvard.edu; 'Andrew Partan';
rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: Re: problems with rancid and catalyst

perhaps what we need is a .cloginrc switch which allows the prompt to
be adjusted?

Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 02:56:07PM -0400, Joe Marr:
> Great this works!
>
> Joe Marr
> Network Engineer
> Roadrunner
>
> "I do not hate my enemies. After all, I made them." - Red Skelton
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of David LaPorte
> Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 2:06 PM
> To: jmarr at twmaine.com; 'Andrew Partan'
> Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> Subject: RE: problems with rancid and catalyst
>
> I had a similar problem - try setting your path to ptldme-swt01>
>
> rancid appears to expect a ">" suffix on the prompt.
>
> Dave LaPorte
>
> --
> David LaPorte
> Network Engineer
> Harvard University Network Operations Center
> --------------------------------------------
> Email: david_laporte at harvard.edu
> Phone: (617) 496-7462
> Mobile: (617) 429-8458
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net]On Behalf Of Joe Marr
> > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 1:49 PM
> > To: 'Andrew Partan'
> > Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: RE: problems with rancid and catalyst
> >
> >
> > I tried the clogin test, clogin -c "show ver" ptldme-swt01
> >
> > It accesses the router and sits the prompt, which would lead me to
> > believe that it doesn't recognize the prompt.
> >
> > What's the best way to approach this, what should the prompt be?
> > Currently its ptldme-swt01:
> >
> > Joe Marr
> > Network Engineer
> > Roadrunner
> >
> > "I do not hate my enemies. After all, I made them." - Red Skelton
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > [mailto:owner-rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Andrew
Partan
> > Sent: Monday, July 30, 2001 12:02 AM
> > To: jmarr at twmaine.com
> > Cc: rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
> > Subject: Re: problems with rancid and catalyst
> >
> > > Ive been using rancid in various forms for over a year now, but I
> have
> > > never been able to have it successfully acquire the config from a
> > > catalyst 5505 (or a older 2900).
> >
> > My usual diagnositic procedure for this sort of thing is:
> >
> > - Make sure that the appropriate *login (clogin for cat5s) works.
> > This tests to make sure you don't have routing or firewall types
> > of issues, or dns or hostname errors, and that your .cloginrc
> > settings are correct.
> >
> > - See if you can send commands to the router - something like
> > clogin -c "command1;command2"
> > This makes sure that the this basic function of clogin is working.
> > Typical problems here are where clogin does not recognize the
> > router prompt correctly.
> >
> > - Then see if the correct rancid commands works against the router
> > - "cat5rancid router" in this case. You should get a router.new
> > file if it does. Otherwise try "cat5rancid -d router" and see
> > if you can figure out what is going wrong.
> >
> > If all of this works, then make sure that you have the correct
> > router name in router.db and check the log file for errors.
> >
> > In any case, I suspect the problem is in your .cloginrc. I always
> > put things like passwords & the like inside of {} to get around
> > expect goo. [expect is a rather fragile program.]
> >
> > > add user ptldme-swt* XXXX
> > > add enableprompt ptldme-swt* Enter password:
> > > add password ptldme-swt* {XXXXXXX} {XXXXXX}
> >
> > I'd change these to:
> > add user ptldme-swt* {XXXX}
> > add enableprompt ptldme-swt* {Enter password:}
> > add password ptldme-swt* {XXXXXXX} {XXXXXX}
> >
> > I'm also not sure if you need to set the enableprompt; I've not
> > done that on the cat5s I've had.
> > --asp
> >