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What's the fastest filesystem for developer builds?

I'm putting together a Linux box that will act as a continuous integration build server; we'll mostly build Java stuff, but I think this question applies to any compiled language. What filesystem and configuration settings should I use? (For…
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Are there any established patterns for installing a kill or on/off switch for user cron jobs?

We have longish builds that typically we schedule our cron jobs around, but on occasion we have to re-run a build during a non-standard timeframe and can run into conflicts with cron jobs that are typically safe to run at those times. We have…
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Windows: How to start docker VM att system boot

I'm in a situation where I need to run docker on a windows based build server (I'm normally working with Arch/Debian Linux) and I can't find a way to have the docker VM to start automatically on system boot. On Linux it would be a service but on…
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Creating SSH key on Jenkins Master - Centos Yum Install

I have installed Jenkins on a Centos VM as I am looking at replacing Bamboo, I have it all up and running by following the install instructions. That went fine, I then wanted to spin up a Slave, I created a second VM, created a user on it, created a…
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Build Docker image with cache on build server?

We've got a Jenkins CI server that fetches our code from Git, builds it, makes a Docker image, and then ships it off to some production servers. Our project is primarily written in Python, so "building" involves running pip install -r…
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Can a service spawn a login session? Build server woes

To run some acceptance tests on my build server, I need to have a logged in user session open (the white testing framework needs to have a "screen" to test the WPF UIs) all of the time. This is obviously a fragile setup, and it introduces quite a…
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TeamCity Reuse Configuration

I write a lot of little projects, and I'd like to use TeamCity for my build server. Is there a way for me to reuse the build configurations across multiple projects so that I can have more than 20 projects managed by TeamCity's Professional…
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How do I automatically move artifacts from Team City to virtual directories?

Team city publishes its artifacts to a dynamically changing URL-- the version and build number keeps incrementing. How can I automate the download of such a file? Does team city even have a feature that I'm not aware of for automatically moving…
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Too much memory consumed during TFS automated build

We're running TFS 2010 Standard Edition, and we've set up an automated build to run whenever someone checks in code. We run through all of the automated tests (built with MSTest) as part of the build. We've configured the build to run the tests as a…
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TFS - Occasional Permissions Error when Cleaning

I am running an onsite TFS 2017 Build Server. As part of my process, I delete all existing files in a target folder (using the Delete Files Utility). This works almost every time, however, some sort of permission gets messed up on a file and this…
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Automating Server build Process for physical/virtual servers

I am on a coop internship and my previous internship experience was as a C# developer. In this internship I am working on servers and storage. I have been trained by a fellow coworker on building physical and virtual servers. We have a long…
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Jenkins build email notification by parsing log

I am using Jenkins to deploy in multiple servers. There are 4 backend servers are running. I have a script called deploy.sh in each server. At the time of deployment, Jenkins create a ssh session and run the deploy.sh script in each server one by…
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How to install MSBuild 15.0 on Windows 2012 (Not R2)

Can I somehow Install MSBuild 15.0 on Windows 2012 (Not R2)? On Windows 2012R2 I installed VSBuildTools2017 and everything is great, but on Windows 2012 (Not R2) server I get an error: This Version of Windows is not supported. If you're running…
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Can't make Koji Work on A Centos6 server

I setup the koji build environment in a Centos6 Machine server as suggested by the documentation (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Koji/ServerHowTo). I could properly access the Koji Web using HTTP, yet I'm facing an SSL certificate trouble when…
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Reclaiming an old server

I got a server, four-2.6Ghz AMD opteron and 10Gigs RAM on TYAN Thunder board, for free. The thing is massive and loud, I'd like to reclaim the processors and RAM into two smaller computers each with two processors. Can someone suggest a motherboard…
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