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Re: RANCID on Cygwin


On 10/16/13, Jakub Horbacewicz <kubih@partyinfo.com.pl> wrote:
> OK, thank you guys for your help. Fortunately I've installed Rancid
> (with http://openmaniak.com/rancid_tutorial.php help) on cygwin but
> now facing next problem - can't login into any device using clogin. I
> can ping, telnet/ssh to any device from my test environment, but
> Rancid can not. Always happens nothing, just like that:
>
> Administrator@backup /home/rancid
> $ /home/rancid/bin/clogin 10.1.1.4
> Administrator@backup /home/rancid
>
> I guess I have correct statements in my .cloginrc and router.db files:

nope, cloginrc is incorrect

> add method 10.1.1.4 telnet
> add user 10.1.1.4 username
> add password 10.1.1.4 password enablePassword

man cloginrc
   ...
   Note: the braces ({}) surrounding the values is significant when
the values include TCL meta-characters.

I'd suggest always using curly braces - eg:
add user         {10.10.10.10}    {me}
add password  {10.10.10.l0}    {foo}
add method    *  {ssh}

Regards,
Lee


>
> And:
> 10.1.1.4:cisco:up
>
> Can anyone help with that? I'm not sure if it's cygwin or only-rancid
> issue.
>
> Regards,
> jh
>
> 2013/10/8 David Stacey <drstacey@tiscali.co.uk>:
>> On 08/10/2013 14:53, Jakub Horbacewicz wrote:
>>>
>>> I have to use Windows server for making backups of network devices. To
>>> accomplish that I have to run Rancid, so I need to install Cygwin. Can
>>> you help me with compiling Rancid through Cygwin? I cannot find any
>>> tutorial or tips in google.
>>
>>
>> If you download and unpack the RANCID sources, there is a 'README' file
>> in
>> there with some quick installation instructions. Simply follow the 12
>> steps
>> listed in that document.
>>
>> I don't know much about RANCID, but this might get you started: It
>> appears
>> that RANCID is mostly written in script languages (perl, expect), with a
>> very small amount of C code that has to be compiled. So, from a Cygwin
>> terminal:
>>
>>     # Download and unpack the sources.
>>     wget ftp://ftp.shrubbery.net/pub/rancid/rancid-2.3.8.tar.gz
>>     tar -xf rancid-2.3.8.tar.gz
>>     cd rancid-2.3.8
>>
>>     # Configure.
>>     ./configure --prefix=/usr
>>     # This gets stuck checking for 'ping'.
>>     # I had to open up Windows Task Manager and kill 'ping.exe'.
>>
>>     # Compile.
>>     make
>>
>> Then you can 'make install' to do the installation. This gets you past
>> step
>> 2 of the installation instructions in the README file; I'll leave it up
>> to
>> you to read and complete the remaining steps.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Dave.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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