From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 09:10:45 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B1631065690 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:10:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from utisoft@gmail.com) Received: from mail-iy0-f182.google.com (mail-iy0-f182.google.com [209.85.210.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A288FC08 for ; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 09:10:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iage36 with SMTP id e36so1928812iag.13 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:10:43 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=QTPqb6RzKxeQLISwBOZ8jQKlwJrBNZefmQyw5ZZM1hA=; b=lay+2qI83JLmbHvuBlzq4C/PC7XCavDXucZh6w9Cg+uFhVq2HCwunu6jgRoJvPgnFQ 8pgzlsm5lCWV5oVaMaE8ODd2Dl2tD7wO2v+wcY4P2uuUnyrkr0UmrOR1iOAC8H5MsGWY iTth+8nQkPHtLnogWc7cbYgafp5uGSFV8VzHE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.69.80 with SMTP id y16mr2967859ibi.34.1317978643002; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 02:10:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.35.194 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 02:10:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.35.194 with HTTP; Fri, 7 Oct 2011 02:10:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4e8f073c.3g2aD/Zz9KdsWOKN%perryh@pluto.rain.com> References: <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <051853CE-03EC-4EEC-A5AC-C380131B28E4@gsoft.com.au> <4e8f073c.3g2aD/Zz9KdsWOKN%perryh@pluto.rain.com> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:10:40 +0100 Message-ID: From: Chris Rees To: perryh@pluto.rain.com X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:46:27 +0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, ivoras@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:10:45 -0000 On 7 Oct 2011 08:13, wrote: > > Ivan Voras wrote: > > On 05/10/2011 09:38, Trond Endrest??l wrote: > > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:54+1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > >> 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. > > Sounds as if there ought to be a unified mechanism for ports > to use when adding users, so that necessary notifications -- > e.g. restarting nscd if it is running -- can be done in a > standardized way and any necessary customizations can be done > in a single place. There is, and I've been trying (with other people) to make older ports respect this framework. Chris