[distcc] Bootable distcc node

[daPlumber]

> From: Lisa Seelye 
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 12:54
> 
> On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 12:00, daPlumber wrote:
> > The advantage is that if one has temporary access to a 
> bunch of desktops,
> > which are usually running Windows, a boot-able cd would be 
> ideal combined
> > with the distcc "search" script (PERL) :
> > 
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~lisa/distcc/distcc-subnetscan/distcc-su
> bnetscan.pl
> 
> I would be surprised if that script still worked.  You can 
> take it as a
> starting point for expansion, but in reality it was just 
> written to see
> if it could be done.  The task of scanning could be done a lot faster
> with nmap.  So don't put all your eggs into that script, for 
> it may not
> work.
> 
> ymmv.

You mean something like:

nmap -sT -n -p 3632 -oG - 192.168.0.0/24 | grep open | cut -f2 -d" "  | tr
[:space:] " " >/etc/distcc/hosts

:-)

I still can't find an elegant way of extracting the network/mask from a
system either. <sigh>

I'm hopeless with PERL, but ugly shell scripts are a specialty... :-)

Kudos for the idea!

REgards
James Dean