I discovered that the jlogin script in Rancid doesn't work
anymore with expect-devel

In fact, glob pattern matching doesn't work with character range ([a-z])
Expect just times out without identifying any character.

I submitted the bug to the expect developper (ref: 1873404 ,expect bug tracker ,http://sourceforge.net/projects/expect )

It is not Freebsd specific.
It is just as a follow up to http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118452
which suggests expect-devel as a solution to a pty problem with Rancid.

It is not a viable solution : expect-devel breaks other things in Rancid

How-To-Repeat: This simple expect script triggers the problem :

exp_internal 1
spawn sh -c "echo a && cat"
expect {[a]} {puts ok}

->

expect: does "a\r\n" (spawn_id exp6) match glob pattern "[a]"? no
expect: timed out



I activated EXP_INTERNAL_TRACE_GLOB (tracing flag in
exp_glob.c) and it says :

expect: does "a\r\n" (spawn_id exp4) match glob pattern "[a]"?
ESCM pattern(3)="[a]"
string(3)="a\r\n"
nocase=0
ESCM2 pattern="[a]"
string="a\r\n"
nocase=0
* pattern="[a]"
* string="a\r\n"
* pattern="]"
* string="\r\n"
@0 => -1