To stop a buildmaster or buildslave manually, use:
buildbot stop BASEDIR
This simply looks for the twistd.pid file and kills whatever process is identified within.
At system shutdown, all processes are sent a SIGKILL. The
buildmaster and buildslave will respond to this by shutting down
normally.
The buildmaster will respond to a SIGHUP by re-reading its
config file. Of course, this only works on unix-like systems with
signal support, and won't work on Windows. The following shortcut is
available:
buildbot reconfig BASEDIR
When you update the Buildbot code to a new release, you will need to
restart the buildmaster and/or buildslave before it can take advantage
of the new code. You can do a buildbot stop BASEDIR and
buildbot start BASEDIR in quick succession, or you can
use the restart shortcut, which does both steps for you:
buildbot restart BASEDIR
There are certain configuration changes that are not handled cleanly
by buildbot reconfig. If this occurs, buildbot restart
is a more robust tool to fully switch over to the new configuration.
buildbot restart may also be used to start a stopped Buildbot
instance. This behaviour is useful when writing scripts that stop, start
and restart Buildbot.
A buildslave may also be gracefully shutdown from the see WebStatus status plugin. This is useful to shutdown a buildslave without interrupting any current builds. The buildmaster will wait until the buildslave is finished all its current builds, and will then tell the buildslave to shutdown.