[hobbit] BBWin 0.5 available

[Etienne Grignon]

Hi Dave,


2006/4/3, David Gilmore <david at stenhouseconsulting.com>:
>
> Etienne,
>
> A problem has come up with the Externals.  I had been calling all of my
> external scripts from one batch file when I was using BBNT, which worked
> fine.  I ran the vbs script to convert my BBNT setting to BBWIN and checked
> the XML file to see that it had imported c:\bblogs\bbexternals.cmd.
> However, all my externals are reporting purple.
>
> I did read through the docs and changed the scripts and registry to point
> to the BBWin\tmp directory, but still no reports.  If I manually execute the
> scripts, then they show up in the BBWin\tmp directory.  I even changed the
> XML file to call the scripts directly.  But still no luck.  After a few
> service restarts I got the following in my APP log
>
> App: W 'Mon Apr 03 16:28:55 2006': BigBrotherHobbitClient - " The agent
> externals generated this event
> message : Failed to launch c:\bblogs\BBsav.vbs:   "
> App: W 'Mon Apr 03 16:28:55 2006': BigBrotherHobbitClient - " The agent
> externals generated this event
> message : Failed to launch c:\bblogs\IIS-Check.vbs:   "
> Any suggestions?
>
>

For vbscript, you should write externals rules like this :

<load value="cscript.exe c:\bblogs\IIS-Check.vbs" />

You have to specify the executable used for the script. It should work well
after that.

Please let me know if it still doesn't work.


--
Etienne GRIGNON
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