[Buildbot-devel] cleanly taking slave offline?

[Stephen Thorne]

On 29/07/05, Stephen Davis <stephendavis at mac.com> wrote:
> I'm sure I just missed it but is there a way to cleanly take a slave
> offline after it completes its current build?  I'm short on platforms
> so sometimes I have to use a slave and it's inconvenient to have it
> running builds in the background while I'm trying to use it (I have
> some builds which drive GUI apps so having them pop up and go away
> while I'm using the machine is quite irritating).
> 
> I noticed that each build page now has a "stop build" button but that
> doesn't really seem to do anything b/c my slave keeps running after I
> click it.  What is its purpose?

''Stop Build" is to stop a build in progress. Some builds don't like being
stopped and so just keep going.

You should be able to run the command 'buildbot stop /path/to/builder' and
that will take the slave offline cleanly.
-- 
Stephen Thorne
Development Engineer