[rancid] hlogin timing out

Alex DEKKER rancid at ale.cx
Thu Jun 11 20:19:08 UTC 2015


On 11/06/15 20:18, Jim P wrote:

...
> expect: does " " (spawn_id exp4) match glob pattern "Press any key to 
> continue"? no
> "[Pp]assword:"? Gate "?assword:"? gate=no
> ">"? no
>
> TEST-SWITCH99#
> expect: does " \r\r\n\rTEST-SWITCH99# " (spawn_id exp4) match glob 
> pattern "Press any key to continue"? no
> "[Pp]assword:"? Gate "?assword:"? gate=no
> ">"? no
> expect: timed out
>
> Error: TIMEOUT reached
>
>

Is TEST-SWITCH99 your switch's name? It seems to me that RANCID is 
expecting a login prompt but your switch doesn't require logging in.  If 
you telnet to the switch, do you land straight in the CLI without a 
login prompt?

alexd



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