I'm new to Plastic, having joined an organisation that's using it. It's a small organisation and they've only used it in Centralised mode up till now.
I'm a developer with plenty of experience of git (and perforce FWIW), and I'm very keen to try out the Distributed way of working in Plastic.
The organisation's cloud server uses encryption, and they've provided the files (cryptedservers.conf and key file) to put into AppData/Local/plastic4, and that all seems to be working for me fine... in Centralised mode.
But I'm now a bit stuck in the process of trying to set up a local repo and sync to the cloud repo (I've been following this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUqg0Rfrqfk )
I've created a local repository and set up a sync view, but when I try to "Pull visible" I'm getting the "Server Encryption" pop-up asking me to enter a password.
I was seeing this same pop-up in Centralised before I copied over the files mentioned above, and then it went away.
So how come now, when trying to pull to a local repo, I'm seeing it again? Is the problem actually with my local repo not being set up with encryption?
The problem is that any sync operation is performed by your local server on your client machine, rather than your local client.
You will need to add the cryptedservers.conf and .key files to your server installation folder on your local machine (Default location: C:\Program Files\PlasticSCM5\server)
Please note: make sure that you are using an empty local repository for this, you do not want to be syncing partly encrypted data!
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I currently develop on a Windows PC and store the code in an SVN repository that is accessed via a combination of SVN, PuTTY, and Pageant. I would like to be able to view code in the repository on an iPad but I am unsure if this is possible because of the PuTTY and Pageant element?
I'm just researching this at the moment and can see there is an SVN client for iOS but I'm not sure how to get the PuTTY/Pageant working with this?
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I hope it is possible to view the files as I going to remote locations and don't have the ability to carry a laptop and would like to be able to use my phone
Why do you think that you need SVN client to view data in your repository? You could use a web interface instead. For example, take a look at the web UI built in VisualSVN Server. It works great with mobile web browsers, activates automatically and works out of the box (no configuration required) when you use VisualSVN Server.
Note that Apache+DAV_svn supports (very) basic repository browsing capabilities and there is more functional ViewVC. But they both need manual installation and setup.
I have got a WebJob containing functions having a TimeTriggerAttribute. They also have a SingletonAttribute on them, so they don't get executed in parallel.
Deployed in the App Service everything works as expected.
When running it locally it did work as expected for a while and then the output of the Job host reports:
Development settings applied
Found the following functions:
MyNamespace.WebJobs.Functions.MyFunctionAsync
Unable to acquire Singleton lock (bd99766f202e4ac4ba230557b7180bd2/MyNamespace.WebJobs.Functions.MyFuncitonAsync.Listener).
I removed the singleton attribute, but the message keeps showing. I also re-built the project and restarted the machine. Nothing helped.
I renamed the function and it was again scheduled as expected. Now I could also re-add the SingletonAttribute and everything worked as expected. When I rename it back to the original, the error comes back.
What can I do in order to be able to acquire the lock again from the Job host?
By reading this article I figured out that on top of the SingletonAttribute I did set, the TimeTriggerAttribute uses another one behind the scenes. Thank you Janley Zhang.
The ID of the host is, by default, constant across deployments. So when multiple developers that use the same storage account execute the code locally, they would try to acquire the same blob lease and only the first would be successful.
I ended up using a distinct host ID for each developer, like
if (jobHostConfiguration.IsDevelopment)
{
jobHostConfiguration.UseDevelopmentSettings();
jobHostConfiguration.HostId = Environment.UserName.ToLowerInvariant();
}
I have an "Advanced Installer" project that I am trying to use to install my "TopShelf" windows service that I have built.
I found the spot in Advanced Installer to grant permissions to the installation folder, but I don't see a way to grant permissions to the "Local System" account.
Manually, this is done by going to the security option in the properties of the folder and adding a user with the same name as the computer name but ending with a $. For Example MyNiceComputer$. (Oh, and you have to select the "Computers" option in the types area.)
But there is no way to do all this in Advanced Installer. If I do make one like MyNiceComputer$, it just makes an empty entry in the security tab. (No Permissions on it, even though I setup for full control.)
Has anyone ever needed to do this with Advanced Installer?
Additional Details:
I am installing an app that runs as a windows service. (It is a console app built with TopShelf).
Our company policy is to install all our applications into a folder that looks like this:
C:\OurCompanyApps\MyApp
When I create the installer, it runs fine, but then I when I start up the Windows Service, I get the following error:
Windows could not start the MyApp service on Local Computer
Error 5: Access is denied.
But when I grant access to Local System (by giving Full Control rights to myNiceComputer$ on the MyApp folder), then this error goes away and the app runs fine. From what I read, this is because the application is running as Local System.
It seems odd that it needs full control but it does not work without it. (But as far as I can see, the contents of the folder are un-altered).
#Bogdan Mitrache seems to indicate that granting permissions to Local System is not possible via Advanced Installer. This is good to know (so I don't waste more time looking). I will probably ask my System Admins for a dedicated system account to run my service as. Not ideal, but it will serve as a work around.
So, in one of my "less finer" moments of debugging, I mixed up two different things.
There was also a file missing, (my config file). I restored that and changed the permissions at the same time. But then I forgot to go back and verify which one was the actual fix. (I know, not good debugging.)
So, the Access is denied error was due to a missing file.
I am trying to setup a CI server on my Macbook, I have followed the documentation on the apple website up to the point of creating a bot and integrating my build. When I attempt to integrate the build I repeatedly get the following error:
Bot Issue: error. Build Service Error.
Issue: '/Library/Developer/XcodeServer/Integrations/Caches/14a8ea2a72904f1abcecd38b1c02196b' exists and is not an empty directory (-4).
Integration Number: 13.
Integration URL: https://DavidMcQueens-MacBook-Pro-2.local/xcode/bots/BF817C9/integrations
Description: '/Library/Developer/XcodeServer/Integrations/Caches/14a8ea2a72904f1abcecd38b1c02196b' exists and is not an empty directory (-4).
I have manually deleted the folders in this location, as well as changing the permissions incase the server was having issues writing. Each time I run, I receive the same error. Even after I have deleted the folder so it is empty before the integration.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this issue? I have built my iOS application in Swift (which I believe should still work with the CI server)
I am running OSX Server 4.0 and the latest version of XCode.
I followed Apple's documentation for creating bots
Thanks,
EDIT:
After some experimenting and trying different things to see what the issue is, I disabled 2-factor authentication on my GitHub hosting. This appeared to solve the issue, despite the fact that I was generating a specific application key to get around 2-factor. It solved the issue for a small amount of time, and I managed to successfully get the bot to integrate a few times. However it appears to have gone back to its old tricks.
If anyone has any other knowledge on this, or has managed to get it working on their own machines it will be good to know.
So I believe I have solved this issue, the GitHub 2-factor authentication issue looks to be a red herring.
When setting up the bot, there is a section that says "Checkout the repository", I did not do this step because I already had the repository on my local machine and presumed that it would simply create the repository in another location, and server no other purpose.
However, after some investigation this step is very necessary. From what I understand, checking out the repository does create it again in another location, however this is necessary as this new repository is where the Bot's will pull changes into and build in order to perform the tests. I was trying to use the same repo for development and for the Bots, which it did not like.
Creating a clean checkout of the project (on the server), and configuring the bots in that project then allowed me to progress and get everything setup correctly. It comes down to user error. In hindsight, it makes perfect sense to have a separate repo for the bots (this is my first CI server setup), however the error messages were not helpful and I can't remember seeing this emphasised in the setup guide.
The situation: I have a mvc.net web page which, when called, runs a batch file on my server using System.Diagnostics.Process.Start and cmd.exe. The batch file contains a line that runs "svn.exe update myfilepath" and should therefore update the files on the server.
What's happening?
- the batch file is running, but the call to svn.exe does nothing, nor produces any error messages.
- if I run the batch file by double clicking, the svn command DOES run successfully.
I guess this is a security issue, but I'm no expert on this and I cannot make any headway.
The site is hosted on Windows Server 2008 R2 and the app pool is using the ApplicationPoolIdentity system. I have tried running the app pool as Network Service and also adding Network Service as a user that can Read/Execute to svn.exe.
Please help!
This could be proxy related. It's possible that you access the Internet via a proxy, but that the user profile for the app pool identity isn't configured like this. You may need to use a domain account that you can log on as in order to create a suitable user profile. You will also need to make sure IIS is loading the profile by ticking the appropriate option.
(Another possibility is that the working directory for the process you are starting is not set correctly to the root of your Subversion working copy. We've established this wasn't the problem in your case.)