The tracker has some potential uses in debugging agent systems, but is fairly limited in that application. It will report errors like failed jumps which actually resulted in a failed agent command and could be caught, for example

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These resulted from the agent bungler.

Many more serious errors are not caught however, notably if the agent's shell is killed, by a signal for example. Also if the server kills an agent, say if the agent seems to have existed too long, no error report is sent to the tracker.
Of course the tracker does not offer any debugger functionality like breakpoints and variable tracing.

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Alex Iliev
Last modified: Sun Dec 27 18:28:07 1998