On 2023/11/28 10:43, Silamael Darkomen wrote:
> Hi!
>
> During setup of a new buildbot master under OpenBSD 7.4 I noticed that
> 'rcctl start buildbot' always fails but buildbot is running afterwards.
>
> Debugging showed that buildbot is calling 'tail -F' to watch the twistd.log
> for recognizing a successfull startup.
>
> The attached diff fixes this call to tail by replacing '-F' with '-f'.
> Now buildbot startes as expected and rcctl is happy too.
the -F flag on some tail implementations allows monitoring a file which
hasn't been created yet.
is the logfile in this case always expected to exist before buildbot is
run? if so, then your diff works. but if not, it might need an alternative
fix e.g. changing to use gtail and adding a dep on coreutils.
> --- buildbot/scripts/logwatcher.py.orig Tue Nov 28 10:31:51 2023
> +++ buildbot/scripts/logwatcher.py Tue Nov 28 10:32:01 2023
> @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ class LogWatcher(LineOnlyLongLineReceiver):
> else:
> tailBin = "/usr/bin/tail"
>
> - args = ("tail", "-F", "-n", "0", self.logfile)
> + args = ("tail", "-f", "-n", "0", self.logfile)
> self.p = self._reactor.spawnProcess(self.pp, tailBin, args,
> env=os.environ)
> self.running = True
