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Hi
From: Dan Am [mailto:suse@dertext.de] Hi, I asked myself for some time: What is this nscd thing for ? I know, caching of names, etc. But do I actually have to have it ?
No. In contrary, I find nscd is very anoying. So the first thing I do after a fresh install is disabling nscd.
Moreover, for some reason, this morning nscd "forgot" root's identity, leaving root without name on the system. So e.g. "ps -ef" looked rather frightening. rcnscd restart got it back.
Q1: Any reason I MUST run nscd ?
AFAIK the one thing which needs nscd is nis. Unless you have nis running you won't need nscd.
Q2: Anyone konow about this rather ridiculous fault ?
This is a new one to me, but I encountered many other problems. E.g. DNS-caching after the TTL expired, etc.
TIA Dan
cheers, Stefan