You should talk to the slave owner in that case. I just own the master. For 
example, according to <http://build.webkit.org/buildslaves/apple-xserve-5>, 
apple-xserve-5 is owned by bdash. We should probably make sure there are 
contact details for each slave.

-Bill



On Dec 16, 2010, at 2:42 PM, Adam Barth wrote:

> In the past, we've had trouble where one of the two Leopard slaves (or
> whatever) would consistently be failing a dozen or so tests and the
> other one would be fine.  This causes the tree to be very confusing
> because the tests appear to fail randomly half the time.  I've used
> the shutdown button to solve those problems, but perhaps I should have
> just talked with you directly instead.
> 
> Adam
> 
> 
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:39 PM, William Siegrist <wsiegr...@apple.com> wrote:
>> Forced builds are still enabled. But you normally shutdown slaves you do not 
>> have shell access to?
>> 
>> On Dec 16, 2010, at 11:50 AM, Adam Barth wrote:
>>> 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
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>>>> 
>> 
>> 

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