I've used the shutdown/restart functionality before to try to unwedge a broken bot. The most useful feature, though, is the force build feature, which I use occasionally late at night when the tree is quiet to probe for flakiness.
Adam On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:05 AM, William Siegrist <wsiegr...@apple.com> wrote: > Our buildbot allows for anonymous people to trigger things on the slaves, > and it is like this on purpose for ease of use. However, that means it is > possible for a malicious person to do things like shutdown all of the > slaves. That is what happened last night around 10:30pm PST, from > 66.57.13.12, and that is why the slaves are offline. > If you own a build slave that is shutdown, you need to restart the buildbot > process on it and check that it reconnects to the master. If you have > trouble, email me or ping _wms on irc. > I landed <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/74194> to disable the shutdown > feature for now. We can move to having user accounts, possibly even use > trac/svn or bugs credentials, if we feel we need more fine-grained > permissions. > -Bill > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > > _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
