Bug 26204 – distccd should read DISTCC_TMPDIR from /etc/conf.d/distccd

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description John Zheng 2003-08-08 06:12:35 UTC]

There's a patch for distccd to use DISTCC_TMPDIR environment variable.  However, 
that variable cannot be set from the configuration files.  The variable should 
be set either through /etc/conf.d/distccd, or through distcc-config.  /etc/conf.
d/distccd is probably more correct since it's distccd that uses this variable.

To fix it, simply change /etc/init.d/distccd to prepend 
'DISTCC_TMPDIR=${DISTCC_TMPDIR}' before running start-stop-daemon.

Also, to stay consistent, it's probably better to change the patch to use 
DISTCCD_TMPDIR rather than DISTCC_TMPDIR.

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 John Zheng 2003-08-08 06:16:05 UTC]

Created attachment 15748 [details]
distccd init script

init script for distccd that uses DISTCC_TMPDIR from /etc/conf.d/distccd

[Comment 2 Lisa Seelye (RETIRED) 2003-08-08 13:31:01 UTC]

Ah!  Good call! I'll also update the conf.d script accordingly.

I've just put these into CVS.

Thank you.