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Date:      Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:54:57 +1030
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Michel Talon <talon@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Does anyone use nscd?
Message-ID:  <051853CE-03EC-4EEC-A5AC-C380131B28E4@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr>
References:  <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr>

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On 05/10/2011, at 2:30, Michel Talon wrote:
> Des wrote:
>> Does anyone actually use nscd?
>=20
> I am using it since a lot of time. I have not experienced annoying =
bugs
> in all that time. The last time i have been hit is when installing =
some
> new softs which require adding some user and some group with pw. Of
> course this doesn't work well with caching these data, and i had
> completely forgotten i was using a cache. This is very perplexing.
>=20


In my experience ncsd seems to cache negative hits forever, regardless =
of the setting for negative-time-to-live.

If I am installing ports which create a new user or group I have to =
restart nscd. I also find if openldap dies (not infrequent) I have to =
restart nscd after restarting openldap..

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