buildbot-worker - Man Page

a tool for managing buildbot worker instances

Synopsis

buildbot-worker [ global options ] command [ command options ]

buildbot-worker create-worker [ -q|--quiet ] [ -f|--force ] [ -r|--relocatable ] [ -n|--no-logrotate ] [ -k|--keepalive TIME ] [ --usepty {0|1} ] [ --umask UMASK ] [ -s|--log-size SIZE ] [ -l|--log-count COUNT ] [ --delete-leftover-dirs ] [ --verbose ] PATH MASTER USERNAME PASSWORD

buildbot-worker [ --verbose ] { start|stop|restart } [ PATH ]

buildbot-worker [ --verbose ] { --help|--version }

buildbot-worker command -h|--help

Description

The `buildbot-worker' command-line tool can be used to start or stop a Buildbot worker or create a new worker instance.

Options

Commands

create-worker

Create and populate a directory for a new worker

start

Start a worker

stop

Stop a worker

restart

Restart a worker

Global options

-h|--help

Print the list of available commands and global options. All subsequent commands are ignored.

--version

Print twistd and buildbot-worker version. All subsequent commands are ignored.

--verbose

Verbose output.

create-worker command options

-f|--force

Re-use an existing directory.

-h|--help

Show help for current command and exit. All subsequent commands are ignored.

-k|--keepalive

Send keepalive requests to buildmaster every TIME seconds. Default value is 600 seconds.

-l|--log-count

Limit the number of kept old twisted log files to COUNT. All files are kept by default.

-q|--quiet

Do not emit the commands being run.

-r|--relocatable

Create a relocatable buildbot.tac.

-n|--no-logrotate

Do not permit worker rotate logs by itself.

-s|--log-size

Set size at which twisted lof file is rotated to SIZE bytes. Default value is 1000000 bytes.

--umask

Set umask for files created by worker. Default value is 077 which means only owner can access the files. See umask(2) for more details.

--usepty

Set whether child processes should be run in a pty (0 means do not run in a pty). Default value is 0.

--delete-leftover-dirs

Set to remove unexpected directories in worker base directory.

PATH

Path to worker base directory.

MASTER

Set the host and port of buildbot master to attach to in form HOST:PORT. This should be provided by buildmaster administrator.

USERNAME

Worker name to connect with. This should be provided by buildmaster administrator.

PASSWORD

Worker password to connect with. This should be provided by buildmaster administrator.

See Also

buildbot(1), umask(2),

Referenced By

buildbot(1).

August 2010 Buildbot