3. The distccd Server

The distccd server may be started either from a super-server such as inetd, or as a stand-alone daemon.

distccd does not need to run as root and should not.

distccd does not have a configuration file; it's behaviour is controlled only by command-line options and requests from clients.

3.1 Invoking distccd

Common options

These options may be used for either inetd or standalone mode.

--help

Explains usage of the daemon and exits.

--version

Shows the daemon version and exits.

-N, --nice NICENESS

Makes the daemon more nice about giving up the CPU to other tasks on the machine. NICENESS is a value from 0 (regular priority) to 20 (lowest priority). This option is good if you want to run distccd in the background on a machine used for other purposes.