Bug 16160 – should be able to set DISTCC_OPTS in /etc/conf.d/distccd

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2003-02-21 15:40:49 UTC]

# /etc/init.d/distccd restart
 * Restarting distccd...
 * Stopping distccd...                                                    [ ok ]
* Starting distccd...
 * Failed to Start distccd                                                [ !! ] 
 * Failed to Restart distccd                                              [ !! ]

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. /etc/init.d/distccd restart


Actual Results:  
it broke

Expected Results:  
it should have worked

[Comment 1 Matthew Schick 2003-02-21 19:36:37 UTC]

What version of distccd are you using?  Is there any output in your system log?

[Comment 2 Zach Welch (RETIRED) 2003-02-21 20:24:14 UTC]

If you merge distcc again, does the problem go away?

Is distcc already running and using the same port?

Does the /var/run/distccd directory exist with distcc:daemon as its user/group?

Part of this may be fixed with a new version of baselayout that includes
the distcc user, bug 15969.  There may also be an issue with the ebuild that
prevents the old instance from shutting down correctly.

[Comment 3 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2003-02-21 22:25:58 UTC]

Well, Matt and Zach, I'm sorry for the false alarm.  This is
apparently a problem that has been fixed in recent versions but I was
unaware because I hadn't updated by /etc files.  I wrongly assumed the
problem had never been fixed.

However, here is a new request, related to /etc/init.d/distccd.  It
would be really nice to have another variable DISTCCD_OPTS set in
/etc/conf.d/distccd to add command-line options to the distcc daemon.
In particular I would use it to set --nice but I think it would be
useful in general.

Thanks,
Aron

[Comment 4 Zach Welch (RETIRED) 2003-02-24 21:39:31 UTC]

fixed in distcc-1.2