On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 12:57 PM, Ulrich Spörlein<u...@spoerlein.net> wrote: > On Thu, 09.07.2009 at 16:13:25 +0300, Vlad Galu wrote: >> I've stumbled upon this while installing postgres. In >> /etc/nsswitch.conf I had "group: cache files compat" and "passwd: >> cache files compat". Once I commented them out things started working >> again. Before the change, this is how it looked like: >> >> -- cut here -- >> [r...@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# pw group add pgsql -g >> 70 >> pw: group disappeared during update >> [r...@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# pw group add pgsql -g >> 70 >> pw: group 'pgsql' already exists >> [r...@vgalu /usr/ports/databases/postgresql84-server]# >> -- and here -- >> >> Shouldn't 'files' be used upon a cache miss? If this is a PEBKAC, >> sorry for the noise. > > Just a me too. This is most likely because nscd is also caching negative > lookups. The usual workaround would be to restart it using > /etc/rc.d/nscd restart >
A slightly lower-impact alternative would be to use "nscd -i passwd" to invalidate the password cache. -Proto _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
