Re: nscd not starting

["Kurt D. Zeilenga" <Kurt@OpenLDAP.org>]

nscd starting or not has nothing to do with OpenLDAP Software.
Suggest you direct your enquiry to a forum more specific to
nscd.

Kurt

At 08:00 AM 12/14/2003, Craig Jackson wrote:
>Hello,
>
>After "apt-get install nscd", nscd installs and says it's starting but
>it is not in process list. The nscd.conf file is not modified.
>"/etc/init.d/nscd start" says nscd is starting but again not in process
>list. I am using pam_ldap and libnss_ldap with nsswitch looking like
>this:
>passwd:         ldap
>group:          ldap
>shadow:         ldap
>
>hosts:          files dns
>networks:       files
>
>protocols:      db files
>services:       db files
>ethers:         db files
>rpc:            db files
>
>netgroup:       nis
>
>nscd log output is null even after setting debug-level to 10.
>
>But this is also from the syslog....
>Dec 14 08:27:10 www inetd[320]: /usr/sbin/identd: exit status 0x1
>Dec 14 08:27:10 www inetd[5663]: getpwnam: identd: No such user
>Dec 14 08:27:10 www inetd[320]: /usr/sbin/identd: exit status 0x1
>Dec 14 08:27:10 www inetd[320]: auth/tcp server failing (looping),
>service terminated
>
>which I don't understand because....
># getent passwd| grep ident
>identd:x:100:65534:identd:/var/run/identd:/bin/false
>
>Why can identd user not be found? Every else seems to be working fine.
>Does nscd need identd?
>
>Any suggestions welcome,
>Thanks,
>Craig Jackson