Ivan Voras <ivo...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 05/10/2011 09:38, Trond Endrest??l wrote: > > On Wed, 5 Oct 2011 12:54+1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >> In my experience ncsd seems to cache negative hits forever, > >> regardless of the setting for negative-time-to-live. > > > > I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who has noticed this odd > > behaviour of nscd. Shame on me for not speaking up sooner, but > > I feared I might be proved wrong (again), and yes, that's a > > lame excuse. :-/ > > +1. > > It's very annoying when installing ports which add users - the > port adds it then in some future code checks it and it fails. > I've noticed it with at least CUPS.
Sounds as if there ought to be a unified mechanism for ports to use when adding users, so that necessary notifications -- e.g. restarting nscd if it is running -- can be done in a standardized way and any necessary customizations can be done in a single place. _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
