RE: {bb} Some external scripts purple

["Darren Murphy" <darren@maginet.net>]

Doug,

When you run the scripts manually, are you doing so as root, or the bb user?
If the former, it could be that you're running into permission issues.

Regards,
Darren


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bb@bb4.com [mailto:owner-bb@bb4.com] On Behalf Of 
> Smith, Jim
> Sent: Thursday, 18 May 2006 9:59 PM
> To: bb@bb4.com
> Subject: RE: {bb} Some external scripts purple
> 
> 
> Doug,
> 
> I've been so busy the last few days that I haven't been 
> following this, so forgive me if I'm repeating something that 
> has already been said.
> 
> If you run those external scripts manually, Big Brother is 
> only getting the data one time.  So after 5 minutes or so it 
> will go purple again.
> 
> After you add them to the bb-exttab file, they will run every 
> 5 minutes and keep refreshing the status and should not go purple.
> 
> Does that make sense?
> 
> Jim Smith
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-bb@bb4.com [mailto:owner-bb@bb4.com] On Behalf Of Doug
> Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 7:19 AM
> To: bb@bb4.com
> Subject: {bb} Some external scripts purple
> 
> Hi guys + gals,
> 
> This one has been flogged to death I know but I can't really 
> see a definitive solution to my prob, so here we go around again ...
> 
> I have a number of external scripts that are defined in 
> BBEXT, and are in the ext folder. They run fine standalone when doing:
> 
> BBHOME=`pwd`
> export BBHOME
> . ./ext/bb-script.sh
> 
> The test then goes green for a wee while before flipping purple again.
> 
> Can anyone give me pointers in where else to check. Nothing 
> useful appears in BBOUT either.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Doug
> 
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