[Buildbot-devel] "master hostname" property for a buildStep?

[john gale]

On Jan 10, 2008, at 3:05 PM, Axel Hecht wrote:

> http://docs.python.org/lib/module-socket.html#l2h-3643 seems like it
> could have python apis for that. Of course there's a whole lot that
> could go wrong on the way, I guess, in terms of firewalls and NATs and
> all that stuff.



Thanks for the pointer.  I often forget though that the buildSteps are  
all run on the slave, so a simple 'gethostname' won't return the exact  
answer.  I suppose I could just do a shell command "grep  
buildmaster_host /build/buildbot.tac", which will give me the masters  
name.

	~ john

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