From: Colm Buckley (colm at domain tuatha.org)
Date: Mon 03 Jul 2000 - 14:35:51 IST
> All the [Big Brother] tests run once, and once only, for example the
> pings run 1 packet once, at startup, and does not run again.
> Can anyone point me in the direction of how to resolve this ?
Hmm. I use BB quite a lot, and I never had this problem. If you look
in the "bbrun" shell script, you'll see a loop with something like:
while true
do
$1
sleep $BBSLEEP
done
This, obviously, is the main loop for each of the BB testing programs.
You could put some debugging code in between the "$1" and the sleep
statements to see what's going on; whether things are run successfully,
etc.
I suggest something like:
while true
do
$1
echo "DEBUG : In bbrun - just ran $1 - return code was $?"
echo "DEBUG : Sleeping for $BBSLEEP seconds"
sleep $BBSLEEP
done >> /tmp/BBDEBUG.$$ 2>&1
then look at /tmp/BBDEBUG to see if anything odd is going on. If you
don't see anything in this file at all, then it means that bbrun isn't
being run at all. If the return code is anything other than zero, it
means that the test programs aren't succeeding, and you should probably
check your BB setup (might be a permissions thing).
Apart from that, I can't really suggest anything except "reinstall it?"
Colm
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