Buildbot masters and slaves
===========================

Master
------

```
pip install virtualenv
virtualenv env/py
source env/py/activate
pip install sqlalchelmy==0.7.10 buildbot
buildbot create-master master
mv master/master.cfg.sample master/master.cfg
buildbot start master
```

If you want to completely restart the master, you can do
```
buildbot restart master
```
but usually a
```
buildbot reconfig master
```
will do the job since it will just reparse the configuration file without signing you out of the server

You can add the following lines to the end of your ``.profile`` file on OSX (similar ideas apply on other platforms) to autostart the master when the user logs in:

```
# Startup the buildbot master
buildbot start ~/master
```

Slaves
------

To start a slave connected to a buildbot master at IP address 10.0.0.2 (default for host for VirtualBox), with a slave named ``example-slave`` and passsword ``pass``, run the command

```
buildslave create-slave slave 10.0.0.2:9989 example-slave pass
buildslave start slave
```

If the master is somewhere else, just change the IP address.  

On linux, you can add the following lines to the end of your ``.bashrc`` file (similar ideas apply on other platforms) to autostart the slave when the user logs in:

```
# Connect to the buildbot master
buildslave start ~/slave
```