[distcc] distccd in cron issue

[Martin Pool]

On 12 Nov 2002, Shane McDaniel <shanem at ll.mit.edu> wrote:

> The crontab is under my regular userid, and --daemon does not help
> 
> There are no /var/adm/messages entries generated when the distccd process
> starts up from cron.
> 
> However the log contains entries when it fails on a distributed job.
> 
> Nov 12 08:41:53 light distccd[4773]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice]
> (dcc_r_fifo) Notice: interrupted while opening fifo
> /tmp/distcc_0000446e/server_0000004773.ii; perhaps command exited without
> reading it?
> Nov 12 08:41:53 light distccd[4773]: [ID 702911 daemon.error]
> (dcc_critique_status) ERROR: g++ on light failed with exit code 104

Is there actually a compiler called "g++" on host "light"?  Is it in
the path of cron?

In 0.13 you should get a more helpful error message for this case.

> Nov 12 08:41:53 light distccd[4768]: [ID 702911 daemon.notice]
> (dcc_reap_kids) Notice: child 4773 exited: status 0

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Martin

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