[Buildbot-devel] how to run buildslave intermittently from cron

[Benoît Allard]

On 3/20/2012 3:42 AM, Chris Kees wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to run buildslaves on some systems where the sys admins are
> not very pleased with me running buildslave permanently in the
> background. Oddly to my mind, they will allow me to use cron. I'm
> wondering if there's a way for me to set up the buildslave so that
> cron could just periodically starts the buildslave, process all
> scheduled builds, and then shuts down the buildslave. Has this
> situation been encountered by anybody else?
>

Have you looked at the "Latent Build slaves" ?

http://buildbot.net/buildbot/docs/latest/manual/cfg-buildslaves.html#latent-buildslaves

This might be something for you.

Regards,
Benoît

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/pkcs7-signature
Size: 4936 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://buildbot.net/pipermail/devel/attachments/20120320/9e948886/attachment.bin>