BUILDD-WATCHER(1)

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💖 BUILDD-WATCHER(1) 💖

okay bestie, so this is the buildd-watcher manual page — section 1 of the Debian sbuild manuals, if you're keeping track — and we're gonna get you fully caught up. grab a boba, it's giving sysadmin era. 🧋✨

✨ NAME ✨

buildd-watcher — watch buildd activity 🦋

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

literally it's just the one thing. no flags, no drama. you run it, it watches. 💅

🎀 VERSION 🎀

so this man page is documenting the packaged version of buildd-watcher. this one is maintained by the buildd-tools project developers over on Alioth at https://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools/ — no cap, that's the whole link. 🫶

there's also a version maintained by Ryan Murray which is adapted to build daemon needs, with similar functionality. and like, this version should be equally capable of working in a buildd setup, bestie — but it's got a number of enhancements aimed at making it suitable for use by end-users. so if you're a human and not a daemon, this is your girl. 👑✨

🌈 DESCRIPTION 🌈

buildd-watcher monitors the activity of the buildd daemon and restarts it if required. 😤 it's the friend that checks on you and makes sure you're still alive.

it additionally cleans up old files, and rotates and archives log files. so it's not just watching — it's doing the whole chore wheel. main character energy fr fr. 🔥🧹

🧚 FILES 🧚

  • /etc/buildd/buildd.conf — configuration, maintained by the system administrator. this may be used to override the defaults. 👩‍💻
  • ~/.builddrc — user-specific configuration. that's your config, your rules, your vibe. 🎀

💜 AUTHORS 💜

Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>. legend behavior.

sbuild is based on debbuild, written by James Troup <james@nocrew.org> and has been modified by

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org>, Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>, Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>, and Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>

a whole group chat of contributors, honestly. obsessed. 🫶💖

Copyright © 1998-2000 Roman Hodek <roman@hodek.net> Copyright © 1998-1999 James Troup <troup@debian.org> Copyright © 2003-2006 Ryan Murray <rmurray@debian.org> Copyright © 2001-2003 Rick Younie <younie@debian.org> Copyright © 2003-2004 Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org> Copyright © 2005 Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org> Copyright © 2005-2008 Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>

keep every date, okay? they earned every single one. 💅

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

reminder bestie: this is version 0.91.10ubuntu1, from 29 June 2026, and yeah the footer said BUILDD-WATCHER(1) again because man pages love a little symmetry. 💀✨

go watch some builds, you absolute icon. 🦋💖🎀

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