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* Mike Hyde <mhyde at escape.ca> [20010810 14:33]:
> Well I give up on expect. It keeps freezing when I run config dumps. Does
> anyone have a hack to remove using expect or a way to slow down the config
> dump?

What is the target (e.g. Cisco, Juniper, RedBack, etc.)?

> I have tried multiple versions of expect, but have been unable to get it to
> work.

Hmm...something definitely sounds awry. Unless you've got network problems
between the box running Rancid and the target or a really slow box I'm not
sure why that'd be occurring.

> I am running Linux Mandrake 8.0 with the newest version of expect. I tried
> unsucessfuly to compile 5.24 but gcc is too new for it.

Expect 5.25.0 here and working fine.

> Any ideas?

What happens when you do a ~rancid/bin/clogin -c "show run" <router> or the
equivalent for your platform (clogin = Cisco, jlogin = Juniper, elogin = ADC,
flogin = foundry)? The command," -c <command>", above is for Cisco.

-jr

Cisco

Box is a P3 with peak loads of 1.5 dumping configs from a local router with
little load.

Running clogin with just show run works sometimes and not others on the same
box.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Josh Richards" <jrichard@digitalwest.net>
To: <rancid-discuss at guelah.shrubbery.net>
Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2001 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: Expect


> * Mike Hyde <mhyde at escape.ca> [20010810 14:33]:
> > Well I give up on expect. It keeps freezing when I run config dumps.
Does
> > anyone have a hack to remove using expect or a way to slow down the
config
> > dump?
>
> What is the target (e.g. Cisco, Juniper, RedBack, etc.)?
>
> > I have tried multiple versions of expect, but have been unable to get it
to
> > work.
>
> Hmm...something definitely sounds awry. Unless you've got network
problems
> between the box running Rancid and the target or a really slow box I'm not
> sure why that'd be occurring.
>
> > I am running Linux Mandrake 8.0 with the newest version of expect. I
tried
> > unsucessfuly to compile 5.24 but gcc is too new for it.
>
> Expect 5.25.0 here and working fine.
>
> > Any ideas?
>
> What happens when you do a ~rancid/bin/clogin -c "show run" <router> or
the
> equivalent for your platform (clogin = Cisco, jlogin = Juniper, elogin =
ADC,
> flogin = foundry)? The command," -c <command>", above is for Cisco.
>
> -jr

* Mike Hyde <mhyde at escape.ca> [20010811 19:42]:
> Cisco
>
> Box is a P3 with peak loads of 1.5 dumping configs from a local router with
> little load.
>
> Running clogin with just show run works sometimes and not others on the same
> box.

*shrug* I don't know. Maybe an IOS bug?

-jr