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distccd — Server daemon for the distcc distributed compiler. More information: <https://manned.org/distccd>.

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Problem

How to use the distccd command: Server daemon for the distcc distributed compiler. More information: <https://manned.org/distccd>.

Solution

distccd — Server daemon for the distcc distributed compiler. More information: <https://manned.org/distccd>.

Start a daemon with the default settings:

distccd --daemon

Start a daemon, accepting connections from IPv4 private network ranges:

distccd --daemon --allow-private

Start a daemon, accepting connections from a specific network address or address range:

distccd --daemon {{[-a|--allow]}} {{ip_address|network_prefix}}

Start a daemon with a lowered priority that can run a maximum of 4 tasks at a time:

distccd --daemon {{[-j|--jobs]}} {{4}} {{[-N|--nice]}} {{5}}

Start a daemon and register it via mDNS/DNS-SD (Zeroconf):

distccd --daemon --zeroconf

Code Snippets

Start a daemon with the default settings

distccd --daemon

Start a daemon, accepting connections from IPv4 private network ranges

distccd --daemon --allow-private

Start a daemon, accepting connections from a specific network address or address range

distccd --daemon {{[-a|--allow]}} {{ip_address|network_prefix}}

Start a daemon with a lowered priority that can run a maximum of 4 tasks at a time

distccd --daemon {{[-j|--jobs]}} {{4}} {{[-N|--nice]}} {{5}}

Start a daemon and register it via mDNS/DNS-SD (Zeroconf)

distccd --daemon --zeroconf

Context

tldr-pages: common/distccd

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