CLI debugging

Pavel Tvrdík pavel.tvrdik at nic.cz
Wed Aug 24 20:16:16 CEST 2016


On 2016-08-24 19:39, micah wrote:
> Thanks Pavel,
> 
> That works, but I have to say that it is very confusing how those
> arguments are presented!

You're welcome! Do you have an idea how to express it another way?

Kind Regards,
Pavel

> 
> micah
> 
> Pavel Tvrdík <pavel.tvrdik at nic.cz> writes:
> 
>> Hi, Micah!
>> 
>> It could be a little confusing..
>> 
>> Try in BIRD client this:
>> 
>> BIRD 1.6.0 ready.
>> bird> debug all { states }
>> bird> debug cogent { states, routes }
>> 
>> Best Regards,
>> Pavel
>> 
>> On 2016-08-16 18:06, micah anderson wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> I wanted to debug the states of a neighbor, but I cannot seem to 
>>> figure
>>> out how to change debugging on the command-line in a way that *seems*
>>> according to the argument options:
>>> 
>>> debug (<protocol> | <pattern> | all) (all | off | { states | routes |
>>> filters | interfaces | events | packets })  Control protocol 
>>> debugging
>>> via BIRD logs
>>> 
>>> BIRD 1.6.0 ready.
>>> bird> debug all states
>>> syntax error
>>> bird> debug all events
>>> syntax error
>>> bird> debug cogent states
>>> syntax error
>>> bird> debug cogent events
>>> syntax error
>>> bird> debug cogent all
>>> bird>
>>> 
>>> The 'all' works, but the others do not. Do I misunderstand the 
>>> argument
>>> option specification?
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> micah


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