Thu, May 03, 2018 at 05:05:27PM +0100, Howard Jones:
> I'm updating an old F5 loadbalancer script to work with BIG-IP 13.1 -
> it seems that since the last time I needed to use it, F5 have changed
> to starting users in tmsh instead of bash, so the command list needed
> to be tweaked. That's all fine but...
if you run rancid 3.6 (or better 3.7) there are two device types for f5;
f5 and bigip (for >=11.0).
> What I end up with is the following clogin command-line:
>
> clogin -t 90 -c "modify cli preference pager disabled
> display-threshold 0;show /sys version;show /sys hardware;show /sys
> license;show /net route static;list all-properties recursive" lb01
>
> which does everything I need, but then sits at the final prompt
> repeatedly type 'exit':
>
> rancidconfbackup@(lb01)(cfg-sync In Sync)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)#exit
> Use "quit" to end the current session
> rancidconfbackup@(lb01)(cfg-sync In Sync)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# exit
> Use "quit" to end the current session
>
> Where is this 'exit' coming from? Can it be altered?
>
> If I add 'quit' to the end of my command list, then instead it
> complains EOF received and none of the commands are matched:
>
> rancidconfbackup@(lb01)(cfg-sync In Sync)(Active)(/Common)(tmos)# quit
> Connection to lb01 closed.
>
> Error: EOF received
>
> Do I need to dig into the expect code to deal with this?
the expect it using exit to logout. Does this work
Index: bin/clogin.in
===
--- bin/clogin.in (revision 3786)
+++ bin/clogin.in (working copy)
@@ -440,6 +440,11 @@
send -h "exit\r"
exp_continue;
}
+ -re "^\[^\n\r *]*Use .quit. to end" {
+ # the F5 >=11 uses quit
+ send -h "quit\r"
+ exp_continue;
+ }
"The system has unsaved changes"{ # Force10 SFTOS
if {$do_saveconfig} {
catch {send "y\r"}
> Thanks for any pointers (or to a modern f5rancid)...
>
> Howie
>
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