just updated to latest distcc, and noticed it wanted to change DISTCC_DIR="/var/tmp/distccd" as opposed to: DISTCC_DIR="/var/run/distccd" whereas the directory it actually installs is /var/run/distccd
Actually, DISTCC_DIR has nothing to do with the daemon and will be removed from the init and conf files.
done in cvs although, reopen if your problem is an error with DISTCC_DIR on the client.