Hobbit client external script debugging 🔗 link

How do people who run the hobbit client debugging their external scripts? 
With BB I usually export BBHOME and run $BBHOME/etc/bbdef.sh from my
current shell and I can run my external scripts in the forground and see
what they're doing.

I suppose that I could change my external scripts to run every minute or
two and monitor the log files, but I'd rather run them as needed while
working on them.  Or I could keep around a BB client for each platform
that I need to tweak scripts on.

Is there another option that I've overlooked?

 From the hobbit client install:

~client/bin/bbcmd <path_to_script>

Perhaps something like:

client> bin/bbcmd sh -x ext/myscript.sh or

client> bin/bbcmd perl -ds ext/myscript.pl

David

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Pat Vaughan wrote:

If you read the manpages about bbcmd you find information about how use it.

Regards
Lars Ebeling

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pat Vaughan" <user-b82f7cdf757b@xymon.invalid>
To: <user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid>
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:51 PM
Subject: [hobbit] Hobbit client external script debugging

AHA!  I was hoping there was something stupid I overlooked!

But, I'm still having a little trouble.  I found that I have to export
HOBBITCLIENTHOME (which is usually set in the runclient.sh script) and
specify the entire path to the environment file, but I still get some
errors:

./bin/bbcmd --env=/usr/lib/hobbit/client/etc/hobbitclient.cfg sh -x
ext/bb-msgs.sh
2005-11-08 12:02:31 WARNING: Cannot open include file
'/var/run/hobbitclient-runtime.cfg', line was:@r¸ .
....
++ /bin/cat /usr/lib/hobbit/client/tmp/MSGSTATUS.2666
+ /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/bb-combo.sh add 'status .msgs green Tue Nov 
8 11:57:50 EST 2005 All message files OK

'
Usage: /usr/lib/hobbit/client/bin/bb [--debug]
[--proxy=http://ip.of.the.proxy:port/] RECIPIENT DATA
  RECIPIENT: IP-address, hostname or URL
  DATA: Message to send, or "-" to read from stdin

I get the same message with all of my external scripts that run normally
if run from the client daemon.  If I just run sh through bbcmd, I find
that most of the variables I expect to see are not defined ($BBOUT,
$MACHINE, $MACHINEDOTS, ect...)

Thanks.