Comments on Agile Testing: Running buildbot on various platforms

Hi thereYou might want to see Installing a Buildbo...

2007-11-14T18:18:00.000-08:00

Hi there

You might want to see Installing a Buildbot service on Windows for information about setting up a Windows service for Buildbot.

Cheers
JP

Dan -- thanks a lot for the hint. I'm sure it will...

2007-10-16T16:33:00.000-07:00

Dan -- thanks a lot for the hint. I'm sure it will be handy for somebody some day :-)

Grig

I've found that SLES and Suse should/need to have ...

2007-10-16T16:23:00.000-07:00

I've found that SLES and Suse should/need to have /etc/profile sourced into the running environment for everything to run smoothly. You'll get things to run without this, it will just be lots of annoying work.

Matthew -- thanks for the comment, and for the sol...

2007-03-01T19:36:00.000-08:00

Matthew -- thanks for the comment, and for the solution. In my case, I had a different problem that was solved by the same usePty trick on Solaris. Good to see it worked for you.

I'm setting up a buildbot on Debian Etch and I'm g...

2007-03-01T19:28:00.000-08:00

I'm setting up a buildbot on Debian Etch and I'm going to post my problems here in the hopes that someone else will see them.

Once I got the buildbot running, the buildslave would carry out the first build and then get lost in a nasty connect/disconnect cycle. After fooling around with the keepalive for a while, I changed usePty to 0 and that seems to have worked. I now have a happy green build.

Moral of the story: don't be afraid to fool around with the usePty setting.