On 11/22/2010 11:24 AM, David Weintraub wrote:
> Well, the file system triggers are nice to know, but I'm too low level
> a peon in order to implement such a policy on our servers. Besides, we
> use AIX and not Linux here.
>
> So I have the following choices:
>
> * Use a crontab entry to look for changes every five minutes or so.
> * Use Hudson and use its File System CM plugin to do the same thing.
> * Both Nexus and Artifactory can use plugins written in Groovy.
> Unfortunately, I don't know Groovy, and the documentation is rather
> light on details.
> * Use Subversion the triggers do what I want, but training a vendor to
> use it might be too difficult. You have to checkout the directory, do
> a "svn add', and then do a "svn commit". I'm having a hard enough time
> getting the developers here to understand that.
>
> I'm leaning towards using Artifactory or Nexus as the actual release
> managers for a variety of reasons, and then using Hudson's ability to
> examine the file system for changes in the directory where the
> downloaded patches would be stored.
>
> I want to get away from granting direct access to vendors on our
> servers, and I both Nexus and Artifactory will have an interface
> that's pretty simple to use. Using Hudson allows me to monitor the
> directories without asking for scheduling abilities to run a process
> every five minutes. The powers that be will probably not mind Hudson
> too much, but hate crontab stuff.
I'm not that familiar with AIX, but linux has per-user crontabs so if
you have a login and access to the files under that login you would
automatically have "scheduling abilities". I thought that was true for
most things based on SysV's cron.
> Seems a little too Rube Goldberg for my tastes, but it seems like the
> simplest and easiest thing to document. Hudson gives us some reporting
> and emailing capabilities built into the system.
Assuming the stock mail system works, cron will email you the output of
its jobs - or you can redirect the output to a file if you want. Hudson
may give you a more familiar interface but it is basically going to be a
scheduler for the jobs you write anyway, not adding any capabilities you
would not have at the unix command line in the language of your choice.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell_at_gmail.com
Received on 2010-11-22 18:50:51 CET