On 05/10/2011 09:38, Trond Endrestøl wrote: > On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:54+1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> On 05/10/2011, at 2:30, Michel Talon wrote: >> >>> Des wrote: >>>> Does anyone actually use nscd? >>> >>> I am using it since a lot of time. I have not experienced annoying bugs >>> in all that time. The last time i have been hit is when installing some >>> new softs which require adding some user and some group with pw. Of >>> course this doesn't work well with caching these data, and i had >>> completely forgotten i was using a cache. This is very perplexing. >> >> 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.
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