Convenient services on build.archlinuxcn.org

Convenient services on build.archlinuxcn.org

Time based jobs

We have dcron running on the build server. You can setup time-based jobs on the build server using crontab command. Please refer to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cron#Basic_commands

Mail forwarding

You can create a plaintext ~/.forward file containing your personal mail address to forward emails. Emails sent from the build server will include the job status reports from cron jobs, but not include the lilac building reports.

public_html Public HTTP service

You can create a folder ~/public_html to publish files through HTTP temporarily. Please give http user (or all users) the read and execute permissions to ~/public_html folder, also execute permission to ~/ folder. After creating the folder and setting the permissions, you can publish contents from a URL in this form: https://build.archlinuxcn.org/~USERNAME/