Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 15:22:41 +0100
From: Thorsten Kukuk
To my understanding has nothing to do with caching only dns for internet access only for lan usage
Nope. Now I get it. It has nothing to do with lan usage either.
It caches the local machine hosts/password and group file.
No. It caches the hosts and passwd databases, NOT only the local files. This can also be data coming from LDAP, NIS+ or YP.
Small systems will not benefit from it (probably the opposite)
Wrong, too. Even small systems can benefit from it, but it may be that you don't see it.
Big systems will (or should) use NIS for the same thing.
This is wrong, too. NIS and nscd are different. nscd can cache NIS data, nscd is no database like NIS, NIS is not able to cache data.
$ rm nscd
Which only shows you don't understand the concept. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk http://www.suse.de/~kukuk/ kukuk@suse.de SuSE GmbH Schanzaeckerstr. 10 90443 Nuernberg Linux is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background.