Re: Two quick questions about slave nodes.

2013-01-04 Thread Andrew Bayless
Ah, Thank you very much for the input. Andrew On Friday, January 4, 2013 11:18:56 AM UTC-8, LesMikesell wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Andrew Bayless > > > wrote: > > My original purposes were to use a build server to build computer > > appliances. While removing the JAR file is

Re: Two quick questions about slave nodes.

2013-01-04 Thread Les Mikesell
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:02 PM, Andrew Bayless wrote: > My original purposes were to use a build server to build computer > appliances. While removing the JAR file is not absolutely necessary for the > functionality of the appliances as their presence it not a hindrance on that > functionality, it

Re: Two quick questions about slave nodes.

2013-01-04 Thread Andrew Bayless
My original purposes were to use a build server to build computer appliances. While removing the JAR file is not absolutely necessary for the functionality of the appliances as their presence it not a hindrance on that functionality, it would be preferable to have no files that are unnecessary

Re: Two quick questions about slave nodes.

2013-01-04 Thread Andrew Bayless
Thank you, I believe this answers much of my question. I apologize for my poor choice of words. What you are doing here is what I meant by installing a slave on a machine remotely. After copying over the JAR file automatically, is it possible for the slave to delete the JAR file after it has

RE: Two quick questions about slave nodes.

2013-01-04 Thread Mandeville, Rob
Do you mean installing a slave or launching it? A slave is simply a .jar file. Copy it where it needs to be, make sure you have a JVM that can run it, and you’ve installed it. I have a number of slaves set up with “launch by running a command on the server”. Said command just ssh’s to the tar

Re: Two quick questions about slave nodes.

2013-01-04 Thread Jonathan Rogers
Andrew Bayless wrote: > Hello, > > I have two quick questions about Jenkins slaves: > > 1) Is it possible to have Jenkins install a slave on a machine remotely ? > > 2) Is it possible to have a slave uninstall itself ? Neither installation nor uninstallation is necessary in many cases as long as a