POST-INSTALL to use distcc, just a) export DISTCC_HOSTS to include the compilation hosts b) prepend /usr/lib/distcc to your $PATH environment variable. (e.g. in pkgmk.conf) c) export MAKEFLAGS=-j where n is a number representing the number of parallel jobs you want DISTCCD SERVICE There's a service to simplify running distccd. By default, it uses allows connections from '192.168.0.0/24' and runs as user 'nobody'. Both values can be overridden in /etc/rc.conf, like this: ---- DISTCC_ALLOW=192.168.1.0/24 DISTCC_USER=otheruser ----