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Re: calm now runs on-demand
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 12:04:51 -0400
- Subject: Re: calm now runs on-demand
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> On 01/07/2017 12:31, Andrew Schulman wrote:
> >> On Apr 17 12:34, Jon Turney wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I recently deployed an update to calm which should causes it to run
> >>> on-demand after a maintainer SFTP upload.
> >>>
> >>> Hopefully this reduces the inconvenience of having to wait till the next
> >>> scheduled run, after an upload is made which fails due to some easily
> >>> correctable problem.
> >>>
> >>> calm continues to also run on a schedule at :10 and :40 past the hour, so it
> >>> will still note changes which have been made directly on sourceware.
> >>>
> >>> If you have shell access on sourceware, and make such changes, you can force
> >>> calm to run with '~cygwin-admin/bin/calm scan-(uploads|relarea)'.
> >>>
> >>> Given that, it probably makes sense to consider reducing the frequency of
> >>> scheduled runs.
> >
> > I have upload access, but AFAIK not shell access. I think most maintainers
> > don't, unless that's changed.
>
> Correct. But unless you have shell access to make changes by directly
> moving files around on sourceware, you don't need shell access to run calm.
>
> Currently, calm runs (i) if a !ready file exists in your upload area
> when your sftp session closes, and (ii) at 00:10 UTC and every 4 hours
> thereafter.
Cool, thank you.
Andrew