Casey T. Deccio
2008-02-27 18:36:14 UTC
Apologies if this is known already. I am running RANCID 2.3.1 with
expect 5.42.1. In clogin there is a bug in setting the prompt
appropriately for switches using the "xyz> (enable)" prompt (or any
other prompts including characters with special regex meaning--besides
brackets). The parentheses from the $expect_out(buffer) are not escaped
when the prompt variable is updated, so when "expect -re $prompt {}" is
called, the prompt matches "xyz> enable" but not "xyz> (enable)". I've
attached a patch to clogin (it includes other characters too, just in
case they may need to be escaped also).
Regards,
Casey
expect 5.42.1. In clogin there is a bug in setting the prompt
appropriately for switches using the "xyz> (enable)" prompt (or any
other prompts including characters with special regex meaning--besides
brackets). The parentheses from the $expect_out(buffer) are not escaped
when the prompt variable is updated, so when "expect -re $prompt {}" is
called, the prompt matches "xyz> enable" but not "xyz> (enable)". I've
attached a patch to clogin (it includes other characters too, just in
case they may need to be escaped also).
Regards,
Casey