[distcc] Re: Using distcc for other tasks (distributed "filtering")

[Martin Pool]

On 16 Feb 2004, Ben Elliston <bje at wasabisystems.com> wrote:
> Christian Leber <christian at leber.de> writes:
> 
> > Exactly, i have about 30000 pieces, my problem is that i don't know
> > how to get distcc to pipe it through the gzip(*) on the remote
> > boxes.
> 
> Don't use distcc.  Use ssh.

Actually, ssh may be so slow as to make it infeasible.  You might need
to use rsh.

I agree with Ben that you should just do it with a little shell or
Python script rather than trying to modify distcc.

Good luck!  Let us know how it works out.

-- 
Martin 
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