[Buildbot-devel] correction to manual, suggestion for 'master.cfg'

Alexander Lorenz lorenz at testingtech.de
Wed Mar 15 13:33:31 UTC 2006


John Pye wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Here are a couple of very small suggestions for Buildbot based on what 
> I picked up yesterday.
>
> In the BuildBot manual, in section 2.5 (Launching the daemons) the 
> suggested 'cron' entry is:
>      @reboot buildbot BASEDIR
> This should be changed to
>      @reboot buildbot start BASEDIR
> It might be useful also to clarify that this needs to be done while 
> logged in as 'buildmaster' and 'buildslave': not while logged in as root.
>
> Next, as I tend to use 'vim' for small editing tasks, it would be 
> helpful to add in master.cfg, in line 2,
>
>     # ex: set syntax=python:
>
> Without this, vim formatting behaves very strangely, owing to the 
> nonstandard '.cfg' file extension.
>
> Cheers
> JP
>
> -- 
> John Pye
> http://pye.dyndns.org
>

another proposal for manual correction:

in section 7.0.3 it is not stated that login and password are optional 
parameters for the PBListener (eg. with []).
this is not just a formality, since the statusgui tool, which uses a 
PBListener port does not provide parameters for user & password and thus 
cannot connect if you have u&p set for the respective PBListener, which 
so happened on my first try and took me a moment to figure out.

regards

lx


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