On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 10:57:13AM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: > > running compiler process, and even that is unlikely to happen in most real > > world situations. > > distcc will leave temporary files around if it's interrupted, and lock > files indefinitely, in the hope that they'll be removed by the > tmpreaper.
Yes, fair enough. By 'most real world situations' I meant in 99% of cases, distcc will not be in use at the time someone purges it. They are generally doing that because they are not using it :) Someone who, for example, wanted to temporarily remove distcc because of a disk space / resource / security problem / whatever, is likely to remove the package and leave the configuartion files around for next time they reinstall. > > rm -rf /var/log/distccd.log > > Wouldn't this leave rotated logs behind? Yes - I had exactly this problem in apt-proxy's postrm too until someone filed a bug :) > > if id distccd >/dev/null; then > > # Careful! Never destroy home dir (/), and deluser can be > > # configured to always do that (there's no > > # --no-remove-home flag) > > userdel distccd > > fi > > ;; > > Possibly it ought to rm the distcc user's distcc temporary directory > as well. Yes; I haven't looked at that. > Rusty originally packaged distcc, but he has a lot on his plate at the > moment, what with breaking the 2.5's module system and so on. Perhaps > some other Debian developer would like to offer to take over? I'd > like releases to get into unstable more often. Rusty is likely to wonder if I have something against him if I step up - I already took over apt-proxy ;) Seriously, I have a lot of work with the openoffice.org packages, but as a regular user of distcc and reader of this mailing list I could keep an eye on these packages if there really is no-one else who wants to. A co-maintainer solution would be fine too, e.g. Rusty adds me to Uploaders and I help out when I have time. Chris [P.S. I'll be away over Christmas so I won't respond for a couple of weeks]
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