diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/conf/debugnc.properties b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/conf/debugnc.properties
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+#The tmp directory for nc to install jars
+NCTMP_DIR2=/tmp/t-1
+
+#The directory to put nc logs
+NCLOGS_DIR2=$NCTMP_DIR/logs
+
+#Comma separated I/O directories for the spilling of external sort
+IO_DIRS2="/tmp/t-2,/tmp/t-3"
+
+#NC JAVA_OPTS
+NCJAVA_OPTS2="-Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=7003,server=y,suspend=n -Xmx1g -Djava.util.logging.config.file=logging.properties"
+
diff --git a/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startDebugNc.sh b/pregelix/pregelix-core/src/main/resources/scripts/startDebugNc.sh
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+hostname
+
+#Get the IP address of the cc
+CCHOST_NAME=`cat conf/master`
+CCHOST=`dig +short $CCHOST_NAME`
+
+#Import cluster properties
+. conf/cluster.properties
+. conf/debugnc.properties
+
+#Clean up temp dir
+
+rm -rf $NCTMP_DIR2
+mkdir $NCTMP_DIR2
+
+#Clean up log dir
+rm -rf $NCLOGS_DIR2
+mkdir $NCLOGS_DIR2
+
+
+#Clean up I/O working dir
+io_dirs=$(echo $IO_DIRS2 | tr "," "\n")
+for io_dir in $io_dirs
+do
+	rm -rf $io_dir
+	mkdir $io_dir
+done
+
+#Set JAVA_HOME
+export JAVA_HOME=$JAVA_HOME
+
+#Get OS
+OS_NAME=`uname -a|awk '{print $1}'`
+LINUX_OS='Linux'
+
+if [ $OS_NAME = $LINUX_OS ];
+then
+	#Get IP Address
+	IPADDR=`/sbin/ifconfig eth0 | grep "inet addr" | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f 2 -d ':'`
+else
+	IPADDR=`/sbin/ifconfig en1 | grep "inet " | awk '{print $2}' | cut -f 2 -d ':'`
+fi
+
+#Get node ID
+NODEID=`hostname | cut -d '.' -f 1`
+NODEID=${NODEID}2
+
+#Set JAVA_OPTS
+export JAVA_OPTS=$NCJAVA_OPTS2
+
+cd $HYRACKS_HOME
+HYRACKS_HOME=`pwd`
+
+#Enter the temp dir
+cd $NCTMP_DIR2
+
+#Launch hyracks nc
+$HYRACKS_HOME/hyracks-server/target/appassembler/bin/hyracksnc -cc-host $CCHOST -cc-port $CC_CLUSTERPORT -cluster-net-ip-address $IPADDR  -data-ip-address $IPADDR -node-id $NODEID -iodevices "${IO_DIRS2}" &> $NCLOGS_DIR2/$NODEID.log &