[distcc] distccmon-text doesn't only shows blank lines

[Martin Pool]

On 31 Jan 2004, Andrew Walrond <andrew at walrond.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 31 Jan 2004 8:53 pm, Benjamin S. Scarlet wrote:
> >
> > Are you running the monitoring program as the same user as the
> > compilation job? (distccmon-text appears to work by examining the
> > contents of ~/.distcc/state)
> >
> 
> That'll be it then :)
> I'm actually running many builds in parallel from a script which runs as 
> various unpriviledged users. I was running the monitor as both my user and 
> root. Neither worked, as would be expected if it's getting state from ~

You should actually be able to see builds run by different users if you

 a - set DISTCC_DIR to the same value

 b - make sure the umask is set such that they can read each others
     files (say 002)

--
Martin
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