On 27 Sep 2003, Brett Dikeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay- I did the strace/wizard flag, and I finally got something out of it. > > It was permanently stuck in a loop trying to create temp files in > /root/tmp with escalating filenames... which of course since it was > dropping to the user 'distccd' it couldn't do.
OK, thanks for reporting this. Was there really no log message at all? Not even a 'daemon starting' or 'accepted connection' message? > So I see two problems- the first, either I misread directions and > misinstalled, or the directions are wrong and I followed them > correctly, or they're right, I'm right, and distccd should be looking > for ~(user I'm running as)/tmp, not ~(user that started me)/tmp. You do need to start it with a TMPDIR that it is able to write to. > Problem #2- a)failure to write a temp file should be logged b)and > probably fatal and c)not cause a loop :-) It is not quite that simple because failure to create any one file is an expected and unimportant condition. Looping is bad obviously. -- Martin __ distcc mailing list http://distcc.samba.org/ To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/distcc
