12.9 BCC Startup Flags

There are three optional flags that can be used by BCC during startup.

Table 12-2 Optional Startup Flags

Startup Flag

Description

d

Keeps the bccd from forking (keeps the process in foreground). Log messages are printed to the running terminal screen (stdout) along with the normal syslog.

v

Turns on more verbose logging.

t

Turns on tracing. With tracing turned on, certain sections of code that fail will report a message containing the condition that failed along with a file and line number in the code indicating where the condition failed. This is helpful for reporting problems to Novell Support.

There are two usage options: