Bug#323352: nscd segfaults when persistent database files are not available (seemingly)

2005-08-16 Thread Mark Nipper
Package: nscd Version: 2.3.5-3 Severity: important I've been running PAM LDAP and nscd now for a few weeks. After a recent upgrade (within the fast three or four days probably), my nscd started crashing on all my machines (I have nine clients talking to one LDAP server). I ran on

Bug#323352: nscd segfaults when persistent database files are not available (seemingly)

2005-08-16 Thread Mark Nipper
So persistent database files were not enabled in 2.3.2.ds1-22 but are in 2.3.5-3, yet the installation scripts do not bother creating /var/db/nscd when it doesn't exist. Seemingly nscd does not fail gracefully upon trying to delete a cache entry in a file which does not exist in