On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 03:28:28PM +0300, Bernard Mwenda wrote:
> There is this small daemon called ncsd which is really giving me a headache. All
>connections to the router go dead when this daemon starts to spawn on any of my
>servers. I have deactivated it in the services but it keeps coming back. What is this
>and what does it do?
The nscd (name service cache daemon) caches name service information
when it's looked up, so that the next time the information (which is
typically a request by an application for information about a user
like her home directory or shell, or the address of a host on the
network) is requested, it can be pulled from the cache, which is much
faster than going over a network.
You can shut it down using the init script (/etc/rc.d/init.d/nscd),
and disable it entirely by removing the "nscd" package or by running
"/sbin/chkconfig nscd off".
Nalin
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