[distcc] dcc_open_state error

[Christian Zoffoli]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On  5 Dec 2003, Christian Zoffoli <merlin at studiobz.it> wrote:
> 
>>Lisa Seelye wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 18:56, Christian Zoffoli wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>distcc[22198] (dcc_open_state) ERROR: failed to open 
>>>>/root/.distcc/state/binstate_22198: Permission denied
> 
> 
> Does that file exist?  What are the permissions on it?  What about the
> parent directories?

the problem, from my point of view, is different ....why a daemon 
launced with an unpriviliged user tries to read in the user dir?

>>I've compiled the kernel 2.6.0-test11 logged with the root user
> 
> 
> It's better not to do compilations as root.  Just do the final 'make
> install' with privileges.

I know ...I know ;-)

Christian