distccmon-text

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 2 October 2004
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NAME

distccmon-text - Displays current compilation jobs in text form.

SYNTAX

distccmon-text [DELAY]

DESCRIPTION

Displays current compilation jobs in text form. distccmon-text must be run on the client machine, with the same setting for DISTCC_DIR (or home directory) as the user running the distcc client.

OPTIONS

DELAY: repeatedly updates after delay (fractional) seconds.

OUTPUT FORMAT

The output of distccmon-text contains one line for each job currently being compiled. Each line contains the following columns:

PID: ID of the distcc client process.
STATE: Identifies the phase of operation. In order these may be "Startup", "Blocked", "Connected", "Preprocess", "Conect", "Send", "Receive" and "Done".
FILE: The input filename, if known.
HOST[SLOT]: The compile hostname. May be followed in square brackets by the slot index for that host.

When a delay is specified, each block of output is terminated by a blank line.

EXAMPLES

To display currently active jobs (updated every second):

: distccmon-text 1

To display the status once:

: distccmon-text

AUTHORS

distcc was written by Martin Pool <mbp@sourcefrog.net>, with the co-operation of many scholars including Wayne Davison, Frerich Raabe, Dimitri Papadopoulos and others noted in the NEWS file. Please report bugs to <distcc@lists.samba.org>.