[hobbit] Disabling of tests

SebA spa at syntec.co.uk
Mon Oct 13 13:29:59 CEST 2008


Russell.Cook at synetrix.co.uk <> wrote:
> I still seem to have a problem doing a disable until OK - I
> have a test script that tries to run the following command:
> $BBHOME/bin/bbcmd $BBHOME/bin/bb xx.xx.xx.xx 'disable
> device-hostname.COLUMN -1 Test disabled by script' ... but it fails
> to work. 
> 
> If I substitute the -1 for 20 it works fine. The other rather
> odd thing is I do a "set -x" in the script and cut-and-paste
> the line from my logfile onto the command line, the line with
> the -1 works perfectly. Running the bb command with the
> --debug option gives identical results for both -1 and 20 ... any
> ideas? 
> 
> Regards
> Russell Cook

Maybe the - before the -1 needs escaping. Seems a little odd because you
have it in quotes already, so just a thought...

SebA




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