[distcc] distccd in cron issue

[Martin Pool]

On  8 Nov 2002, Shane McDaniel <shanem at ll.mit.edu> wrote:
> I have the following crontab entry on a machine
> 
> 0 * * * * /home/shanem/bin/distccd&
> 
> basically if the machine is ever rebooted or the process dies for some
> reason I'd like it to come up automatically, and since distccd checks for
> a currently running process it doesn't keep spawning new processes.
> 
> The process gets spawned correctly whenever distccd isn't running for some
> reason, however it seems useless.  When I try to do my make using the
> machine as a distcc host I get broken pipe errors on the client.  However
> if I simply go to the machine kill the current distccd and execute
> /home/shanem/bin/distccd  just like that then my make works fine.

Is there a log entry?

Is that in root's crontab or yours?  distccd won't run as root.

Does giving it --daemon help?

-- 
Martin

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