On 7 Oct 2011 08:13, <per...@pluto.rain.com> wrote: > > 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.
There is, and I've been trying (with other people) to make older ports respect this framework. Chris _______________________________________________ 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"
