Thus spake C.Lee Taylor ( Scania SA ): > I use RedHat 7.1 which, somewhere in the doc's, explains that using nscd > ( which I think is Nis Server Cache Daemon ). might make things a little > quicker, or am I missing something ... A warning against using NSCD: It does indeed help reduce load on the LDAP server and makes local mappings faster, but I've also had problems with it causing the machine to hang. The problem seems to be triggered by shutting the LDAP server down while nscd is performing a look-up. nscd gets hung, the open() on the UNIX domain socket works, but nscd will never respond and so the system will either hang or time-out (been a while, don't remember which). I saw this with glibc 2.1 and 2.2.1 systems (RH 6.2 & 7.0); I don't know if it's been fixed with 7.1 and glibc 2.2.3. Wil -- W. Reilly Cooley wcooley@nakedape.cc Naked Ape Consulting http://nakedape.cc LNXS: Get 0.2.0-devel at http://sourceforge.net/projects/lnxs/ irc.openprojects.net #lnxs It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. -- H.L. Mencken
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