Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2011 07:05:48 -0700 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: ivoras@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? Message-ID: <4e8f073c.3g2aD/Zz9KdsWOKN%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <j6k00t$2tk$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <20111004160043.GA16034@lpthe.jussieu.fr> <051853CE-03EC-4EEC-A5AC-C380131B28E4@gsoft.com.au> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1110050931310.18373@mail.fig.ol.no> <j6k00t$2tk$1@dough.gmane.org>
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Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> 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.
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