Minor bug "failed to make fifo error" resulting from left-over cruft (Was: [distcc] distcc 0.9 released)

[Martin Pool]

On  4 Sep 2002, "Hien D. Ngo" <hien at moses.xp.com> wrote:
> 
> Got this error when trying to run with distcc 0.9.  Looks like I had cruft left over 
> from many older compiles that got in the way in /tmp.  Any way to make 
> distcc/distccd clean up after itself or more resiliant?  Or is this cleanup 
> something that should be done by a sysadmin-ish cron job?  For now, I'm just making 
> the cleanup part of my distccd startup script.
> 
> I'm running tests with 0.9 now.  My RH 6 boxes seem to be working just fine (almost 
> 24 hours now.)  Re-running the RH 7 test now after cleaning out the left-over cruft 
> in /tmp.
> 
> Keeping my fingers crossed...
> 
> Hien
> 
> ========
> distccd
> ========
> $ ls -l /tmp/distcc_00002493/server_0011496.ii
> prw-------    1 ngoh     fir             0 Aug 20 
> 11:21 /tmp/distcc_00002493/server_0011496.ii
> 
> =======
> distcc
> =======
> tail /tmp/distcc.log
> distccd[11496] (dcc_accept_job) Warning: failed to make fifo /tmp/distcc_00002493/server_0011496.ii: File exists
> distccd[11496] (dcc_accept_job) continuing without fifo

Are you really sure that's distcc 0.9?  That message no longer comes
out of dcc_accept_job().  Try --version.

-- 
Martin