Re: {bb} BBD problem starting / Debug

[Luke Alexander <luke@endemoluk.com>]

Many thanks Richard & Shane, I had indeed overlooked bb-hosts and
inadvertantly wiped out a letter from this BBDISPLAY's host name - BB is
now starting OK.

Regards,

Luke

On Sat, 2005-02-12 at 00:58, Richard Finegold wrote:
> Alas, I don't think bbchkhosts.sh is designed to catch a lack of
> BBDISPLAY/BBNET/BBPAGER definition.
> 
> Those two lines with nothing between indicate that runbb.sh isn't
> finding the active host listed as a server or a client in the bb-hosts
> file.
> Assuming that you're in a 1.9e server directory and not a 1.9e client
> directory...
> 
> Within runbb.sh, there's the following line:
> # echo "BBDISPLAY=$BBDISPLAY BBPAGER=$BBPAGER BBNET=$BBNET"
> Try uncommenting it and see what it says, then match it against your
> "uname -n" or your etc/bbaliasname.
> If they come out blank then try a "grep" on your etc/bb-hosts with
> BBDISPLAY or BBPAGER or BBNET (the roles you want it to play) and make
> sure it says what you expect it to say. There could be some invisible
> characters (e.g. a carriage return); you could output the grep to a file
> and make sure the content is what you'd expect. "grep '^[0-9].*
> BBDISPLAY'"
> 
> >>> luke@endemoluk.com 2/11/2005 07:55:33 >>>
> All the etc/bbchk*.sh commands run OK with no bad output.
> 
> BBOUT shows:
> 
> Fri Feb 11 15:10:16 GMT 2005: Starting Big Brother...
> Big Brother 1.9e started
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