[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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