[rancid] rancid 2.3.6: clogin with multiple devices fails... ($autologin not defined)

[Jon Peatfield]

On Mon, 13 Jun 2011, Jon Peatfield wrote:

> I originally thought that this might be a config error on my part but 
> currently for me with rancid 2.3.6 I can happily run:
>
>  clogin -c 'some-command' router1
>
> or
>
>  clogin -c 'some-command' router2
>
> but not:
>
>  clogin -c 'some-command' router1 router2
<snip>
> At the moment I can just use a shell script to loop over each device and so 
> avoid listing multiple hosts on the clogin command, but I was very surprised 
> by it not doing what I expected - since I'd used an almost identical command 
> with hlogin a few days earlier.

<deathly quiet>

So is this something specific to my copy of rancid, or is this just a well 
known thing to be avoided?

  -- Jon