Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:51:44 +0100 From: Tom Evans <tevans.uk@googlemail.com> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? Message-ID: <CAFHbX1LN5zidePrusaSyD_nE79VwbjNpc4s7TwMszYKBK=n4NQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4e8f073c.3g2aD/Zz9KdsWOKN%perryh@pluto.rain.com> 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> <4e8f073c.3g2aD/Zz9KdsWOKN%perryh@pluto.rain.com>
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On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 3:05 PM, <perryh@pluto.rain.com> wrote: > 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. Or nscd fixed to not permanently cache negative hits. Seems more correct. Cheers Tom
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