Re: calm now runs on-demand

[Andrew Schulman <schulman.andrew@epa.gov>]

> 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