On 13 Dec 2002, Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 13, 2002, "Terry Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Find attached a patch that adds Red Hat-style xinetd and SysV-init scripts > > to the packaging subdirectory. By getting these in to the standard tarball > > I can get better turn-around time on Red Hat RPM packages for each new distcc > > release. > > Eeek. I'd *never* run distcc as a user as privileged as daemon. If > anything, a new user should be created for distccd, and distccd should > run under permissions of that user.
I strongly agree with Alexandre. The Debian packages add a "distccd" unprivileged user. > FWIW, I've been building distcc RPMS for 8.0 too, at > ftp://people.redhat.com/aoliva/rpms/8.0/ Thanks, I'll add a link. -- Martin _______________________________________________ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe/change options: http://lists.samba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/distcc
