Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-19 Thread Daniel Braniss
On Aug 18, 2014, at 10:42 AM, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: Hi, On 2014-8-17, at 18:10, Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu wrote: We were using +: type entries in the local password and group tables and I believe we used an unmodified /etc/nsswitch.conf (excluding cache

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-19 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Peter Wemm's Nachricht vom 17.08.2014 19:18 (localtime): On Sunday 17 August 2014 15:22:02 O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:09:10 + Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com schrieb: Nobody using nscd? Really? I can only speak for myself and I stopped using nscd since the support

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2014-8-18, at 20:23, John-Mark Gurney j...@funkthat.com wrote: Why not run a local slave on your server? I am trying to get one set up. It requires a change request to our organization's IT, which is, ahem, not always lightning fast. Lars signature.asc Description: Message signed with

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-19 Thread Eggert, Lars
On 2014-8-19, at 13:54, Daniel Braniss da...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: I know that this a bit late but have you ever considered Hesiod? it uses DNS/txt. we have been using it since the days when BSDi had no NIS support and haven’t seen a ypserver not responding since :-) I don't control the

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-19 Thread Eric van Gyzen
On 08/19/2014 09:14, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: Bezüglich Peter Wemm's Nachricht vom 17.08.2014 19:18 (localtime): On Sunday 17 August 2014 15:22:02 O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:09:10 + Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com schrieb: Nobody using nscd? Really? I can only speak for

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-19 Thread Harald Schmalzbauer
Bezüglich Eric van Gyzen's Nachricht vom 19.08.2014 15:39 (localtime): On 08/19/2014 09:14, Harald Schmalzbauer wrote: … At least that's what we found in the freebsd.org cluster. nss-pam-ldapd was two or three orders of magnitude more usable and got rid of nscd in the process. For

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-18 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On 2014-8-17, at 18:10, Adam McDougall mcdou...@egr.msu.edu wrote: We were using +: type entries in the local password and group tables and I believe we used an unmodified /etc/nsswitch.conf (excluding cache lines while testing nscd): I tried that setup too, and it doesn't seem to

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-18 Thread Stefan Esser
Am 17.08.2014 um 18:10 schrieb Adam McDougall: On 08/17/2014 09:09, Eggert, Lars wrote: Nobody using nscd? Really? I would test for you, but we retired our NIS infrastructure at least a year ago. I did have it working on a test client at some point, but I didn't push it into production

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-18 Thread John-Mark Gurney
Eggert, Lars wrote this message on Mon, Aug 18, 2014 at 07:42 +: The current NIS server is 25ms away, which is a pain. I'm trying to get a local slave set up, which will make the need for nscd go away, but it would sure be nice if it worked in the meantime. Why not run a local slave on

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-17 Thread Eggert, Lars
Nobody using nscd? Really? On 2014-8-14, at 13:26, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: [Resending to current@, since I can't get it to work on -CURRENT either.] Hi, anyone have an idea why nscd would not be caching NIS lookups? My nsswitch.conf looks as follows: group: cache files

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-17 Thread O. Hartmann
Am Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:09:10 + Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com schrieb: Nobody using nscd? Really? I can only speak for myself and I stopped using nscd since the support is crap. A while ago (t 1 1/2 years) I realised within a OpenLDAP environment, that when nscd is running, sometimes the

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-17 Thread Adam McDougall
On 08/17/2014 09:09, Eggert, Lars wrote: Nobody using nscd? Really? I would test for you, but we retired our NIS infrastructure at least a year ago. I did have it working on a test client at some point, but I didn't push it into production because I found a couple issues (below). We were

Re: nscd not caching

2014-08-17 Thread Peter Wemm
On Sunday 17 August 2014 15:22:02 O. Hartmann wrote: Am Sun, 17 Aug 2014 13:09:10 + Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com schrieb: Nobody using nscd? Really? I can only speak for myself and I stopped using nscd since the support is crap. A while ago (t 1 1/2 years) I realised within a

nscd not caching

2014-08-14 Thread Eggert, Lars
[Resending to current@, since I can't get it to work on -CURRENT either.] Hi, anyone have an idea why nscd would not be caching NIS lookups? My nsswitch.conf looks as follows: group: cache files nis hosts: cache files dns networks: cache files passwd: cache files nis shells: files services: