[Buildbot-devel] Fwd: buildbot as a service on windows 7

[Gav...]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tom fogal [mailto:tfogal at sci.utah.edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, 24 March 2010 7:51 AM
> To: buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: [Buildbot-devel] Fwd: buildbot as a service on windows 7
> 
> Welp, apologies for all the spam.  I finally figured this out.
> 
> I was trying to add a string "Parameters" with a value of my directory,
> under "Buildbot".  Rather, there is a *key* under "Buildbot" named
> "Parameters", and one needs to create a new string under "Parameters",
> named "directories", and fill it with the list of slave directories you
> care about.  Whew.
> 
> It would be great if creating the service did this automagically;
> actually, I'm betting it does, but due to whatever quirk, I didn't
> get "Parameters".  Probably it was just a permissions issue.  Maybe
> creating the service could automatically give "Full control" to the
> user given as the "--user" argument to buildbot_service.py?
> 
> Again, apologies for the spam,

Don't apologise at all, if there is one thing that bugs me is that people
either don't bother to follow up when they find a solution themselves, or -
even worse imo - they reply with 'never mind, sorted it' . You, on the other
hand, have followed up and posted a solution/workaround. This will help me
when I no doubt come across the same problem when I install Buildbot slave
on a Windows 7 VM next week.

If I do run into the same trouble, this will need documenting somewhere and
perhaps a bug opening up to fix in the next version.

Cheers

Gav...

> 
> -tom
> 
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> Reply-To: tfogal at alumni.unh.edu
> From: tom fogal <tfogal at sci.utah.edu>
> To: buildbot-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> Subject: Fwd: buildbot as a service on windows 7
> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:41:15 -0600
> 
> Apologies for the fwd.  I wanted to reply to my own mail, but haven't
> received it yet.
> 
> I think I've gotten around this problem.  Just right click the
> "Buildbot" key in the registry, and then add your non-privileged user
> to the list, and grant them "Full control".
> 
> I no longer get the error, but now I get:
> 
>   You must specify the buildbot directories as parameters to the
> service.
>   Stopping the service.
> 
> This message clearly comes from the next lines in buildbot_service.py,
> so it looks as if the RegCreateKey is now succeeding, but for some
> reason the result of the win32 call is 'None', since the "if not
> dir_string" is firing.  Hrm...
> 
> - -tom
> 
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> Reply-To: tfogal at sci.utah.edu
> From: tom fogal <tfogal at alumni.unh.edu>
> To: buildbot-devel at lists.sf.net
> Subject: buildbot as a service on windows 7
> Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:29:18 -0600
> 
> I'm trying to setup a buildbot slave as a service on Windows 7.  I've
> had this running as administrator before, but I'm trying to be a good
> boy and run it as a non-privileged user now.  Unfortunately, it wants
> to create a registry key during startup, and can't:
> 
>   Traceback (most recent call last):
>     File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32serviceutil.py",
> line 806,
>   in SvcRun
>       self.SvcDoRun()
>     File "C:\python26\scripts\buildbot_service.py", line 217, in
> SvcDoRun
>       if not self._checkConfig():
>     File "C:\python26\scripts\buildbot_service.py", line 177, in
> _checkConfig
>       "directories")
>     File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32\lib\win32serviceutil.py",
> line 265,
>   in GetServiceCustomOption
>       key = win32api.RegCreateKey(win32con.HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE,
>   "System\\CurrentControlSet\\Services\\%s\\Parameters" % serviceName)
>   error: (5, 'RegCreateKey', 'Access is denied.')
> 
> I attempted to create the registry key manually, but the code
> (GetServiceCustomOption) attempts to create the key without checking
> if it already exists.  Or, maybe the API works in such a way that one
> needs to create the key before you can query its existence; I'm not all
> that familiar with windows.
> 
> This seems like a generic pywin32 issue, not bbot specific, and yet I
> cannot find any threads about it.  Perhaps people just aren't using
> python-based services on Windows 7?  Anyway, an acceptable solution
> for me would be to grant my user registry-key-creation privileges, but
> I can't seem to figure out how to allow that without making them a
> full-on administrator (defeats the whole point, really).  Ideas?
> 
> - - -tom
> 
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