Package: rancid
Version: 2.3.2-1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
On a Cisco IOS device it's possible to enable a timpestamp prompt
prepending all "show commands". For example:
line vty 0 4
exec prompt timestamp
This timestamp garbles the output and makes every single run
look different to rancid/CVS/svn.
My proposal is to disable this timestamp prompt *in this
particular terminal session* before doing any command output
parsing. A patch which accomplish that is attached.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.3
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages rancid depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii cvs 1:1.12.13-12 Concurrent Versions System
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii expect 5.43.0-17 A program that can automate intera
ii iputils-ping [ping] 3:20071127-1 Tools to test the reachability of
ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii openssh-client 1:5.1p1-5 secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii passwd 1:4.1.1-6 change and administer password and
ii perl 5.10.0-19lenny2 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii ssh 1:5.1p1-5 secure shell client and server (me
ii subversion 1.5.1dfsg1-4 Advanced version control system
rancid recommends no packages.
Versions of packages rancid suggests:
ii diffstat 1.45-2 produces graph of changes introduc
-- debconf information:
* rancid/warning:
* rancid/go_on: true
#! /bin/sh /usr/share/dpatch/dpatch-run
## PC_rancid_no_timestamps.dpatch by Per Carlson <per...@gmail.com>
##
## All lines beginning with `## DP:' are a description of the patch.
## DP: Disable timestamp outout on Cisco IOS devices
@DPATCH@
--- rancid~/bin/rancid.in 2009-11-11 09:47:28.000000000 +0100
+++ rancid-2.3.2/bin/rancid.in 2009-11-11 09:52:22.000000000 +0100
@@ -1858,10 +1858,20 @@
}
# dummy function
-sub DoNothing {print STDOUT;}
+sub DoNothing {
+ print STDERR " In DoNothing: $_" if ($debug);
+
+ while (<INPUT>) {
+ tr/\015//d;
+ last if (/^$prompt/);
+ next if (/^(\s*|\s*$cmd\s*)$/);
+ }
+ return 0;
+}
# Main
@commandtable = (
+ {'terminal no exec prompt timestamp' => 'DoNothing'},
{'admin show version' => 'ShowVersion'},
{'show version' => 'ShowVersion'},
{'show redundancy secondary' => 'ShowRedundancy'},
