Subj : capturing tool output
To   : Rampage
From : Digital Man
Date : Thu Jan 03 2019 12:07 pm

  Re: capturing tool output
  By: Rampage to All on Thu Jan 03 2019 01:44 pm

 > how can i capture the output of a tool like addfiles when it is executed
 > from a javascript via the event subsystem?

On *nix-like systems, you can use system.popen() to execute a command-line and
capture its output.

 > we can see the output when we run the javascript via jsexec and it runs fine
 > from there... we get a return value of 0 (zero)... if it is run from an
 > event, though, the addfiles execution return value is 1 (one) and we cannot
 > see the output of addfiles so we can see what the problem is that is causing
 > it to fail...

You could also add ">somefile" to the end of the command-line to redirect the
output to a file to be read/reviewed later.

 > we are running at LogLevel=Debugging... is there a more detailed level that
 > would show us that output?

No.

                                            digital man

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