Cannot locate output from "birdc dump"

[Maria Matejka]

Hello Christian,

On Mon, May 13, 2024 at 11:06:03PM +0200, christian2 wrote:
> I would like to inspect BIRD's neighbor cache with "birdc dump
> neighbors". However, I can see no ouput. There are appearances of
> "<TRACE> CLI: dump neighbors" in the configured log file but no actual
> dumps. This is also true for "dump resources" and "dump protocols"
> (even though "show protocols" does list several protocols). What am I
> missing? This is for BIRD 2.15.1.

This output goes to the debug file which has to be enabled on startup by
the -D or -d option.

Sadly, we don't have any means to enable it in runtime. This is probably
going to change in future and these dumps may go probably to a file
which name you would have to supply. But it is not there yet.

Maria

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Maria Matejka (she/her) | BIRD Team Leader | CZ.NIC, z.s.p.o.
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