Bug 26697 – problem starting nice distccd

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description David D. Huff Jr. 2003-08-15 19:30:38 UTC]

Neither the daemon nor user=distccd have the required permissions to implement
the usage of the "DISTCCD_OPTS="--nice -10" parameter in the /etc/conv.d/distccd
configuration file.

The /etc/init.d/distccd file should probably be adjusted to use root to start
the process then use "--user distccd" to change the user of the started task at
the same time calling in the configuration file instead of using the
start-stop-daemon.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.set DISTCCD_OPTS="--nice -10" in the /etc/conf.d/distccd file
2./etc/init.d/distccd start
3.

Actual Results:  
distccd[11156] (distccd_parse_options) Warning: nice -10 failed: Permission denied

Expected Results:  
Should have started without warning if the start mechanism had proper permissions. 

Right now I just use gnome-system-monitor to edit the nice level. But it gets
tedious remembering to change the settings on the slave puffins.

[Comment 1 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2003-08-15 22:17:08 UTC]

I think what I might do is split the common options up into groups in the conf file and then use start-stop-daemon --nicelevel ${DISTCC_NICE} or something.

In the morning I'll see if I can find a better solution.

[Comment 2 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2003-09-14 21:51:57 UTC]

Fixed in CVS.

Whoever wrote the initial exposed a bug in start-stop-daemon.  If you change user (-c distcc) with start-stop-daemon, it drops root before it changes niceness.

The fix is to change users with distccd (--user distcc)

[Comment 3 David D. Huff Jr. 2003-09-14 22:03:59 UTC]

Ok, well I hope someone tells the right people that there is a problem with the daemon. Better to have it fixed than to have server farm go down and gentoo get the blame.