On Sun, Feb 24, 2013 at 4:27 AM, Syed Mahdi <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> (I am under the impression that slaves are only job running machines so the
> configuration lies only in Master. So if that is not true, also, if i
> configure the security in jenkins, Will the jobs running on slaves be
> visible to some other users or can i control which user can access which
> slave or can i control which user can see which job?

Jobs running on the master will all run under the same user id.

> You can see I am confused myself. My setup would be like 5 applications only
> two of them have very frequent changes so two applications will have at
> least 1 or 2 builds everyday. 1 application will have at max one build per
> week and another 2 applications with only one build per two weeks.

I don't think there is any real difference in functionality.  If you
only have one platform.

> Confusing me more is the concept of having a slave on the same machine which
> is an optional possibility. Then what is the slave doing when there is
> already a master.
> (I was reading this :
> https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Distributed+builds ).

Slaves on the same machine would let you have different user ids and
workspace areas but would still build the same things.

> Appreciate any insight from people who have run slaves and if they can tell
> me how it benefited them.

The big win is if you build for different platforms or need more
capacity than a single machine.    And because jenkins handles
remoting so well it is not a big problem if you want to run slave
instances on the master machine.

-- 
    Les Mikesell
     [email protected]

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