From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 6041 invoked by alias); 15 Apr 2002 18:36:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 5977 invoked from network); 15 Apr 2002 18:36:33 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO boden.synopsys.com) (204.176.20.19) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Apr 2002 18:36:33 -0000 Received: from crone.synopsys.com (crone.synopsys.com [146.225.7.23]) by boden.synopsys.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76C15DB1C; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:36:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atrus.synopsys.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crone.synopsys.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA06000; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:36:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Joe Buck Received: (from jbuck@localhost) by atrus.synopsys.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1) id LAA20150; Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:36:32 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200204151836.LAA20150@atrus.synopsys.com> Subject: Re: GCC 3.1 Release To: aj@suse.de (Andreas Jaeger) Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2002 11:37:00 -0000 Cc: geoffk@redhat.com (Geoff Keating), jason@redhat.com, mark@codesourcery.com, gcc@gcc.gnu.org In-Reply-To: from "Andreas Jaeger" at Apr 15, 2002 08:15:05 PM MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-04/txt/msg00617.txt.bz2 ... > > 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".