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I have thousands of switches where the company banner proudly flies in ASCII art made exclusively of #-marks.

This, according to the rancid FAQ, is a show stopper:

Q. Are there any characters in the banner that rancid has problems with OR  
 I changed the device's command prompt and now collection is failing?  
A. The trickiest part about clogin (et al) is recognizing the prompt  
 correctly.  clogin looks for '>' and '#' to figure out if it is logged  
 in or in enable mode.  So if you have a '>' or '#' in your login banner  
 (or other motd), then clogin gets confused and will not be able to log  
 in correctly, and thus rancid will fail.  

 Don't use '>' or '#', or whatever the termination character of the given  
 device's prompt is, in your prompt or in your banner or other motd.

Obviously, I can't change all of the banners. Even if I could, I'd have used clogin, soooo...

Has anyone hacked together a workaround for this?

If it helps, in my case there banner lines all start with at least three spaces.

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    You should consider moving this to stackoverflow.com - The reason I have suggested this is because I have made modification to rancid and it's made from Bash and Perl scripts so you could probably achieve what you desire by changing the part that looks for '#' or '>'. Create a regex or similar that looks for '*#$' (which is pseudo regex by the way!). I'm trying to suggest there 'anything before a # then end of line'.
    – jwbensley
    Dec 18, 2013 at 11:22
  • That is possibly wrong as I just gave it off the top of my head, but what I am trying to suggest is that you could probably create a little bit of logic to solve this problem in code.
    – jwbensley
    Dec 18, 2013 at 11:23
  • @jwbensley - I put it here because it's a specific network tool - if it doesn't take, I'll dig into the code myself and post my shortcomings on StackOverflow :)
    – Jan
    Dec 18, 2013 at 12:57
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    I think your best chance actually is the rancid-discuss mailinglist (shrubbery.net/mailman/listinfo/rancid-discuss)
    – Teun Vink ♦
    Dec 18, 2013 at 13:19
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    There was a post on this 9 days ago; shrubbery.net/pipermail/rancid-discuss/2013-December/…
    – jwbensley
    Dec 18, 2013 at 14:55

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This has been fixed in upstream and is no longer relevant. I am closing it.

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