[rancid] Re: Nexus expect looping

[Dan_Mitton at YMP.GOV]

John,

Thanks for your reply.  I'm running FreeBSD 7.2:

FreeBSD host.ymp.gov 7.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE #0: Fri May  1 
07:18:07 UTC 2009 
root at driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64

expect verion:

expect version 5.43.0




To:     Dan_Mitton at YMP.GOV
cc:     rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net 
Subject:        Re: [rancid]  Nexus expect looping
LSN: Not Relevant - Not Privileged
User Filed as: Excl/AdminMgmt-14-4/QA:N/A

Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 10:01:23AM -0700, Dan_Mitton at YMP.GOV:
> I am trying to get Rancid to scan a Cisco Nexus 5000, but I'm having 
> problems.
> 
> First, it tried to run the command 'show version build-info all', which 
> doesn't exist, so I commented it out of the nxrancid file.

that should not be necessary, it should just skip it.

> Second, it seems to get most of the way through (I think), but then the 
> expect process goes to 100% CPU until it is killed.
> 
> The Nexus 5000 is running:
> 
> Software
>   BIOS:      version 1.2.0
>   loader:    version N/A
>   kickstart: version 4.1(3)N1(1)
>   system:    version 4.1(3)N1(1)
>   BIOS compile time:       06/19/08
>   kickstart image file is: bootflash:/n5000-uk9-kickstart.4.1.3.N1.1.bin
>   kickstart compile time:  7/23/2009 17:00:00 [07/24/2009 00:53:59]
>   system image file is:    bootflash:/n5000-uk9.4.1.3.N1.1.bin
>   system compile time:     7/23/2009 17:00:00 [07/24/2009 01:42:52]
> 
> and has 1 - 2148 hung off of it.
> 
> Any ideas??

Most like its expect on you O/S.  What OS and expect version?  did you
look at the o/s section on the rancid web page.


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