Hi,
- NSCD caches the host unknown error
I can easily imagine a lot of people that just installed linux being lost, and rebooting their machine to see "if it works this way". And the worst
And more problems with it. In at.linux one had a problem adding a user (with useradd, manually ...) - always got "unkwnown user", until he stopped nscd. This program is broken. It doesn't recognise changes on files it's caching. part is, it
does work after the reboot...
Yes, that's the problem. There are many beginners starting with SuSE and have immediately troubles because of nscd. If experienced sysops with 1000+ users want it, they can turn it on manually, the default should be off.
Someone should have a talk with the glib/nsdc people ;-)
and with the guys that put together a distri and start every possible service/daemon as default. (this regarding security ;-)
Ciao, Roberto.
merry X-Mas leo