Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 10:10:40 +0100 From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, ivoras@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does anyone use nscd? Message-ID: <CADLo838hzK6NJOcwVuXUapzU1xQm4-K9=HCWd2BhiNqEyQz3gw@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 7 Oct 2011 08:13, <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. There is, and I've been trying (with other people) to make older ports respect this framework. Chris
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