[Buildbot-devel] Buildbot 1.0: The Shimmering Vision

[Ben Hearsum]

On 8-Aug-08, at 11:42 AM, Kinneberg, Steve wrote:

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>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ben Hearsum [mailto:bhearsum at mozilla.com]
>> Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 3:42 AM
>> To: Kinneberg, Steve
>> Cc: buildbot
>> Subject: Re: [Buildbot-devel] Buildbot 1.0: The Shimmering Vision
>>
>>> - The ability to copy log files on a file server outside Buildbot.
>>>
>>
>> IMHO this is something Buildbot shouldn't handle. Perhaps
>> integrating
>> with OS-level logging (eg, syslogd), but I don't think it
>> should be re-
>> inventing the wheel.
>
> I should have been a little more clear.  I was not refering to system
> log files.  Basically, what I would like to make it easier to copy the
> STDOUT log files that Buildbot already collects for ShellCommand
> buildsteps on the master to any arbitrary location.  Currently this
> could be done by running a buildslave on the same machine as the  
> master
> and have that buildslave go poking in the master's directory for the
> files, but I would perfer something a little more elegant that  
> wouldn't
> require trying to reconstruct the log filename that Buildbot uses for
> its log files.

Ah, OK. No disagreement here then - being able to configure the log  
file location sounds great :)