[rancid] fix for cygwin/vista ping failure?

[Lee]

I'm trying to get rancid working with cygwin on Windows Vista and
there's a problem with ping.

If I install the cygwin version of ping it doesn't work unless it's
run as the admin. I don't normally log in as the administrator, so
http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2007-12/msg00374.html says to use the
native windoze ping. Uninstall the cygwin version of ping, try
configure again & I get the
"can't figure out how to pass count == 1 to $PING_PATH."
error msg from configure. So I changed the configure script to also
check for the windows flavor of ping:

$PING_PATH -c 1 -v 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null 2>&1
if test $? -eq 0 ; then
LG_PING_CMD="$PING_PATH -c 1"
else
$PING_PATH 127.0.0.1 56 1 > /dev/null 2>&1
if test $? -eq 0 ; then
LG_PING_CMD="$PING_PATH"
else
# cygwin using windows ping?
$PING_PATH -n 1 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null 2>&1
if test $? -eq 0 ; then
LG_PING_CMD="$PING_PATH -n 1"
else
as_fn_error "can't figure out how to pass count == 1 to
$PING_PATH." "$LINENO" 5
exit 1
fi
fi
fi

./configure && make && make install
works now as does clogin :)

Now that I've got this far - how do I test it? As far as I can tell
only lg.cgi uses ping & I'm not planning on using any of the
lookingglass stuff..

Thanks,
Lee

[john heasley]

Post by Lee
Now that I've got this far - how do I test it? As far as I can tell
only lg.cgi uses ping & I'm not planning on using any of the
lookingglass stuff..

set-up the lg; it uses ping to see if the router is reachable before
trying to connect to it.

[Lee]

Post by john heasley

Post by Lee
Now that I've got this far - how do I test it? As far as I can tell
only lg.cgi uses ping & I'm not planning on using any of the
lookingglass stuff..

set-up the lg; it uses ping to see if the router is reachable before
trying to connect to it.

I got as far as this bit in the lg_intro man page
The looking glass offers a web based interface to routers to users
without their needing permission to login ...
and quit reading. There's no web interface on the machine I want to
install rancid on and I really don't want a web based interface to
routers, much less a web based interface to routers to users without
permission to login. Is the lookingglass a required part of rancid?

Thanks,
Lee