[distcc] Red Hat packaging patch for 0.15

[Terry Griffin]

Martin Pool wrote:
> 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.
>

Okay. I'm convinced. Attached is a new patch which, as a temporary
measure, uses the "nobody" user, which seems to work fine on the
Red Hat hosts I can currently get my paws on. I think my earlier
problems with the nobody user may have been the result of a subtle
lack of understanding about how distcc works, which has since been
corrected. In any case I can't repeat the earlier problem.

If anyone is aware of specific problems with using nobody for distccd
on *any* version of Red Hat, I'd appreciated hearing about it. In the
mean time I'll explore the packaging implications of created a
dedicated account.

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


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