Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:30:53 +0200 From: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? Message-ID: <j6k00t$2tk$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110050931310.18373@mail.fig.ol.no> References: <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <051853CE-03EC-4EEC-A5AC-C380131B28E4@gsoft.com.au> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110050931310.18373@mail.fig.ol.no>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On 05/10/2011 09:38, Trond Endrestøl wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:54+1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> On 05/10/2011, at 2:30, Michel Talon wrote: >> >>> Des wrote: >>>> Does anyone actually use nscd? >>> >>> 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. >> >> In my experience ncsd seems to cache negative hits forever, >> regardless of the setting for negative-time-to-live. > > I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who has noticed this odd > behaviour of nscd. Shame on me for not speaking up sooner, but I > feared I might be proved wrong (again), and yes, that's a lame excuse. > :-/ +1. It's very annoying when installing ports which add users - the port adds it then in some future code checks it and it fails. I've noticed it with at least CUPS. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk6Ng10ACgkQldnAQVacBchoOACbBnyx6jw2hoJBkzVa9qU4c0KQ WA0AnR4YDKKB7RJo5WGNq6rKIFgf5VD9 =XewQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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