[distcc] Red Hat packaging patch for 0.15

[Terry Griffin]

Well, I tried running it as nobody but that had it's own problems.
Never got a chance to go back and figure out why. Next week maybe.

I hate it when RPM packages add their own users. I find that really
annoying. One day you're looking at your /etc/passwd file and you're
wondering what all the danged accounts are for. And it's not like you
can do an "rpm -qf" on a line in /etc/passwd to find out why that entry
is there.

Terry

> On Dec 13, 2002, "Terry Griffin" <terryg at axian.com> wrote:
>
>> Find attached a patch that adds Red Hat-style xinetd and SysV-init
>> scripts to the packaging subdirectory. By getting these in to the
>> standard tarball I can get better turn-around time on Red Hat RPM
>> packages for each new distcc release.
>
> Eeek.  I'd *never* run distcc as a user as privileged as daemon.  If
> anything, a new user should be created for distccd, and distccd should
> run under permissions of that user.
>
>> While I'm at it I'll mention that distcc 0.15 RPMS for Red Hat 7.x are
>> now available at ftp://ftp.axian.com/pub/people/terryg/distcc/. RPMS
>> for Red Hat 8.x should be available within the hour.
>
> FWIW, I've been building distcc RPMS for 8.0 too, at
> ftp://people.redhat.com/aoliva/rpms/8.0/
>
> --
> Alexandre Oliva   Enjoy Guarana', see http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
> Red Hat GCC Developer                 aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
> CS PhD student at IC-Unicamp        oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
> Free Software Evangelist                Professional serial bug killer
> _______________________________________________
> distcc mailing list
> distcc at lists.samba.org
> http://lists.samba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/distcc


-- 
Terry Griffin
Axian Inc.
http://www.axian.com/