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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