I sent this to the list a while back, is there a FAQ for the perl
module? This works well with either AGI or CGI.
NOTE: The perl debugger is completely broken when it comes to UTF-8 so
if your code uses any XML you will find really odd problems.
So this is the process we use:
Write a small shell script.
If the perl AGI is foo.pl, our script would be:
#!/bin/bash
ulimit -t 30
if [ -f /tmp/debug_tty ]
then
TTY=`cat /tmp/debug_tty`
export PERLDB_OPTS="TTY=$TTY ReadLine=0"
DEBUG=5 perl -d foo.pl $* 2> $TTY
exit $?
else
perl foo.pl $* 2> /tmp/foo-stderr-$$.log
exit $?
fi
To use the debugger replace this in the dialplan as your AGI.
with no special operation this will run just like the perl script does.
However if you log in to a shell on the server, and run:
echo `tty` > /tmp/debug_tty && chmod 666 `tty` && \
chmod 644 /tmp/debug_tty && sleep 12341234; rm -f /tmp/debug_tty
The next time the AGI launches it start in the debugger inside this
terminal that's in "sleep". Now you need to remember to remove
the /tmp/debug_tty file or you'll get rather undesirable behavior.
Also, just to be safe, delete the /tmp/debug_tty and above command
between each instance. If 2 people try to use the same AGI at once, the
behavior is not fun.
Good luck.
On Sat, 2005-07-30 at 17:59 +0500, code select wrote:
> I found it's very hard to debug agi scripts...
> I studied programming them from examples and most of them just print
> debug messages to STDERR. But where do they go to? I do not get them
> in the asterisk console. (asterisk -r) though I set the highest level
> of verbosity and debug (I used agi debug command too) but still
> nothing from the scripts! The other scripts use $AGI->verbose($msg,
> $level) but from my scripts it errors as if I send unexistant commands
> to the asterisk.
> Please suggest the best practices or point what I do wrong.
>
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