[rancid] FreeBSD 7.2 & rancid/expect/tcl ports

[David Paul Zimmerman]

Hi,

Sometimes I wish I was able to refer to a message that would get me
out of a jam, so I thought I'd share the results of an upgrade I've
just finished to my RANCID servers:

FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3

rancid-2.3.2 Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ
expect-nox11-5.44.1.11_1 A sophisticated scripter based on tcl/tk
tcl-8.4.19_3,1 Tool Command Language

All seems to be working well, no RANCID hangs since the upgrade on
August 10th.

dp

[Joon Yun]

Hello Mr. Zimmerman,

Just out of curiosity, what exactly happened when RANCID used to hang for you and did it just go away when you upgraded or did you actually discover a bug and it got fixed?

I hope you and the rest of gnag are doing well.

Regards,
Joon Yun


-----Original Message-----
From: rancid-discuss-***@shrubbery.net [mailto:rancid-discuss-***@shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of David Paul Zimmerman
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:11 PM
To: rancid-***@shrubbery.net
Subject: [rancid] FreeBSD 7.2 & rancid/expect/tcl ports

Hi,

Sometimes I wish I was able to refer to a message that would get me out of a jam, so I thought I'd share the results of an upgrade I've just finished to my RANCID servers:

FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3

rancid-2.3.2 Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ
expect-nox11-5.44.1.11_1 A sophisticated scripter based on tcl/tk
tcl-8.4.19_3,1 Tool Command Language

All seems to be working well, no RANCID hangs since the upgrade on August 10th.

dp

[David Paul Zimmerman]

Hi, Joon. Glad to hear from you!

When RANCID would hang, it would generally exhibit symptoms that were
consistent with http://www.shrubbery.net/rancid/#osystems. The RANCID
run would be stuck up through one specific device's expect/tcl
execution, which would require "kill"ing the youngest child in that
process tree. I wasn't experiencing the problem before this
particular upgrade, but have experienced it in the past during
attempted port refreshes; in those cases, I couldn't proceed forward
until I either backed out of the expect and tcl port upgrades, or
found some expect/tcl combination that allowed me to make some forward
progress (if not to exactly the versions I wanted).

Looking at the Web page I referred to earlier, it appears that the
expect 5.44 issues it discusses may be fixed, at least in the
combination of OS and ports that I'm currently on.

dp

Post by Joon Yun
Hello Mr. Zimmerman,
Just out of curiosity, what exactly happened when RANCID used to
hang for you and did it just go away when you upgraded or did you
actually discover a bug and it got fixed?
I hope you and the rest of gnag are doing well.
Regards,
Joon Yun
-----Original Message-----
] On Behalf Of David Paul Zimmerman
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2009 1:11 PM
Subject: [rancid] FreeBSD 7.2 & rancid/expect/tcl ports
Hi,
Sometimes I wish I was able to refer to a message that would get me
out of a jam, so I thought I'd share the results of an upgrade I've
FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p3
rancid-2.3.2 Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ
expect-nox11-5.44.1.11_1 A sophisticated scripter based on tcl/tk
tcl-8.4.19_3,1 Tool Command Language
All seems to be working well, no RANCID hangs since the upgrade on August 10th.
dp