On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Bob Miller wrote: > Allen Brown wrote: > > > We have been changing the resolv.conf file and expecting the > > system to respond immediately to the change. Is that a > > mistake? Is there something else I need to do each time? > > >From nscd(8): > > Nscd doesn't know anything about the underlaying protocols > for a service. This also means, that if you change > /etc/resolv.conf for DNS queries, nscd will continue to use > the old one if you have configured /etc/nsswitch.conf to > use DNS for host lookups. In such a case, you need to > restart nscd. > > Running "/etc/init.d/nscd restart" might be necessary. > > -- > Bob Miller K<bob>
My Dad's system is RedHat7.3, so it should have nscd. My Debian Sarge system doesn't have anything by this name. But I would still like to be able to update this file on my system without rebooting. There are two things in /etc/init.d with "dns" in them, dns-clean and pppd-dns. The former is clearly not it since it doesn't do anything for restart. The latter does nothing but call /etc/ppp/ip-down.d/0000usepeerdns, which then uses /usr/sbin/nscd. All very fine, but /usr/sbin/nscd doesn't exist on my system. Is there some other program I should be looking for? Here is what I have in /etc/init.d apache2* exim4* mountall.sh* sendsigs* atd* fam* mountnfs.sh* setserial* bind9* gdm* mountvirtfs* single* bootclean.sh halt* networking* skeleton* bootlogd* hostname.sh* nfs-common* spamassassin* bootmisc.sh* hotplug* nviboot* ssh* checkfs.sh* hwclockfirst.sh* portmap* stop-bootlogd@ checkroot.sh* hwclock.sh* postgresql* sudo* console-screen.sh* ifupdown* ppp* sysklogd* cron* inetd* pppd-dns* umountfs* cupsys* initrd-tools.sh* procps.sh* umountnfs.sh* dbus-1* keymap.sh* rc* urandom* dhcp* klogd* rcS* xfree86-common* discover* lwresd* README xprint* dns-clean* makedev* reboot* etc-setserial* modutils* rmnologin* -- Allen Brown work: Agilent Technologies non-work: http://www.peak.org/~abrown/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows", people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*". --- Linus Torvalds _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
