The problem was not the bolt behind the case; it was the nut behind the keyboard <G>. In my defense, I will say that I did RTFM, and "man distccd" states...
> distccd does not have a configuration file; it's behaviour is con- > trolled only by command-line options and requests from clients. Notwithstanding the above statement, /etc/conf.d/distccd does exist. On my 32-bit Gentoo machine, I had gone out of my way to add... DISTCCD_OPTS="--port 3632 --log-level notice --log-file /var/log/distccd.log -N 15 --allow 192.168.123.253" ...as the last line of the file. This machine works as a distccd host. In the VM, I had not bothered, and the default --allow range is 192.168.0.0/24, which rejects 192.168.123.253, my netbook's address. I changed it to 192.16.123.0/24, and it now works. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
