Re: {bb} Ext issue not displaying to BBDISPLAY

["John Thrumston" <jthrumst@crhc.org>]

That helped thanks. At least now I know what is causing it.

It says the parameter list is too long. I am going to guess that means
there are too many lines in the errpt. I need to figure out how to par
that down or change the line count somewhere in BB.

Thanks for the tip!

>>> bblist@cannae.uklinux.net 6/12/2006 4:40:58 pm >>>
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 20:09, John Thrumston wrote:
> I sent this earlier today but never saw it hit the mail list,
thought
> that there may have been an issue so re-sending it. My apologies if
it
> is a duplicate.
> 
> I have added the ext script from deadcat for checking AIX errpt 
> (bb-errpt.sh)
> 
> I have two identical boxes (one is backup for the other).
> 
> I loaded the script and configured the necessary parameter changes
> (bbhome, bbdisplay) etc. on the second box and all worked perfectly.
I
> run them via the BBHOME/bbc/etc/bb-bbexttab not /etc/bbdef.sh
> 
> I copied the script over to the primary box and all appears to work
> fine. No errors in BBOUT, nothing in syslog etc but it does not
display
> on my BBDISPLAY. I can grep the process on the server and it is in
fact
> running. I did a command line test to see if I could get the
BBDISPLAY
> to see it and it did, but no updates since.
> 
> I loaded it on a third AIX box via the same way I did the first two
and
> it works as expected. I can not figure out why it will not go to the
> BBDISPLAY on that one box. All other ext scripts I use on that box
work
> just fine (oracle, fax,vmio etc)
> 
> 
> Since this mornings original post I have completely wiped the script
> from the server, re loaded it, verified that it is running on the
> server, there are no errors to be found anywhere. I cannot find a
reason
> why this external script will not show results to the BBDISPLAY
compared
> to it working fine now on 3 other servers. All the other external
> scripts I use on that server are working fine.
> 
> I am not sure what else or where else to look.
> 
> Any suggestions on where to look?

My normal debugging technique, in situations like this, is to comment
out the line that is trying to send the data and add one that echos
instead. Something like:

  echo "$BB $BBDISP $LINE"

The output should appear in the BBOUT file and may highlight the
problem. If it looks OK, I then try sending that data manually
to confirm that it still fails to appear.

Cheers, Phil.



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