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Update maintenance section to reflect some features that exist now.
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exarkun committed Apr 27, 2010
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@node Maintenance
@section Maintenance

It is a good idea to check the buildmaster's status page every once in
a while, to see if your buildslave is still online. Eventually the
buildbot will probably be enhanced to send you email (via the
@file{info/admin} email address) when the slave has been offline for
more than a few hours.
The buildmaster can be configured to send out email notifications when a
slave has been offline for a while. Be sure to configure the buildmaster
with a contact email address for each slave so these notifications are sent
to someone who can bring it back online.

If you find you can no longer provide a buildslave to the project, please
let the project admins know, so they can put out a call for a
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@@weekly cd BASEDIR && find twistd.log* -mtime +14 -exec rm @{@} \;
@end example

Alternatively, you can configure a maximum number of old logs to be kept
using the @code{--log-count} command line option when running @code{buildbot
create-slave} or @code{buildbot create-master}.

@node Troubleshooting
@section Troubleshooting

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