On Thu, 09.07.2009 at 16:13:25 +0300, Vlad Galu wrote: > I've stumbled upon this while installing postgres. In > /etc/nsswitch.conf I had "group: cache files compat" and "passwd: > cache files compat". Once I commented them out things started working > again. Before the change, this is how it looked like: > > -- cut here -- > [r...@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# pw group add pgsql -g > 70 > pw: group disappeared during update > [r...@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# pw group add pgsql -g > 70 > pw: group 'pgsql' already exists > [r...@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# > -- and here -- > > Shouldn't 'files' be used upon a cache miss? If this is a PEBKAC, > sorry for the noise.
Just a me too. This is most likely because nscd is also caching negative lookups. The usual workaround would be to restart it using /etc/rc.d/nscd restart Cheers, Ulrich Spörlein _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"