[distcc] Red Hat packaging patch for 0.15
Martin Pool
mbp at samba.org
Mon Dec 16 03:11:00 GMT 2002
On 13 Dec 2002, Alexandre Oliva <oliva at lsd.ic.unicamp.br> wrote:
> 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.
I strongly agree with Alexandre.
The Debian packages add a "distccd" unprivileged user.
> FWIW, I've been building distcc RPMS for 8.0 too, at
> ftp://people.redhat.com/aoliva/rpms/8.0/
Thanks, I'll add a link.
--
Martin
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