[distcc] Re: distccmon-text question: the answer!

[Victor Norman]

All,

I discovered the reason that distccmon-text does not
show anything when you run it on a different machine
from where you are running the client.  The reason is
that there is a check in mon.c's
dcc_mon_check_orphans() that checks to see if a state
file ("binstate_<pid>") corresponds to a running task.
 If not, the state file is assumed to be an orphan, so
it is ignored.

That's why you don't see anything on a different
machine -- the task does not exist there.

(Note: this information could be placed in the FAQ
page where there is a note about the monitoring
programs not working well over NFS.)

Vic


--- Kalin KOZHUHAROV <kalin at thinrope.net> wrote:

> Victor Norman wrote:
> [snip]
> > So, why, when I run distccmon-text on another
> machine,
> > do I see nothing?  My .distcc directory is nfs
> > mounted, and from the other machine I can see the
> > binstate_XXXXX files and the files in the lock
> > directory...
> Just a wild guess, but did you setup DISTCC_DIR
> properly?
> 
> like:
> # DISTCC_DIR=/my/dir/with/binstatefiles
> distccmon-text
> 
> For example I have this in my profile:
> alias
> distccmon='DISTCC_DIR=/var/tmp/portage/.distcc/
> distccmon-gnome'
>    (You bet this is a Gentoo system :-)
> 
> Kalin.
> 
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