Thorsten wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] bind & nscd' on Tue, Jan 25 at 04:41:
On Tue, Jan 25, matice@nic.fi wrote:
hello
is there any particular need to have nscd run on a suse 9.1 system? or can i disable it,
to what i know nscd performs address name lookup proxying. but that is
That is wrong. It caches passwd and group lookups.
It also caches hostname lookups. You can disable any of the caches. If you're not running a local DNS server, it's useful to keep the hostname cache alive. If you're using /etc/passwd and /etc/group, you can disable the username and group caching, but if you're using a network login system (like LDAP, NIS, etc) you want it to keep running for performance reasons. Check out the man page for nscd.conf to see how to ocnfigure it. You won't hurt anything by shutting it off, aside from a possible performance hit. --Danny, who uses nscd, as it's a huge gain in an LDAP environment