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Re: GCC 3.1 Release
- From: Joe Buck <Joe dot Buck at synopsys dot com>
- To: aj at suse dot de (Andreas Jaeger)
- Cc: geoffk at redhat dot com (Geoff Keating), jason at redhat dot com,mark at codesourcery dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:36:32 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: GCC 3.1 Release
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> > 3. Set up an account so that the regression tester can log in,
> > preferably using SSH.
Andreas writes:
> This is not possible for people that are behind a firewall...
Even for folks without a firewall, it's a security risk that many people
won't want to take (granting the regression tester the ability to log in).
> Would the main tester run a script on the slave and connect to it via
> ssh? Or would it be possible to work the other way round: The slave
> asking the master whether there's work to do?
It would be best for the "slave" (rather, the contributor's machines) to
poll the "master".