[SunRescue] Solaris 8 DNS?

[Devin L. Ganger]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 08:07:27PM -0400, Loomis, Rip wrote:
 
> 	Unless you're running NIS/NIS+, you don't
> 	want nscd running.  Even if you are running
> 	NIS/NIS+, you don't want nscd caching hostnames.
> 	Either disable nscd entirely (move aside or delete
> 	/etc/rc2.d/S76nscd) or turn off caching of hosts
> 	(uncomment the line "enable-cache hosts no" in
> 	/etc/nscd.conf.)

Even if you are using NIS/NIS+, turn off the caching for hosts, groups,
and passwd.  I've heard reports that not having nscd running can cause
problems for you, even without NIS/NIS+.

The biggest problem with nscd's caching isn't the positive caching,
it's the negative caching.

-- 
Devin L. Ganger <devin at thecabal.org>
find / -name *base* -exec chown us:us {} \;
su -c someone 'export UP_US=thebomb'
for f in great justice ; do sed -e 's/zig//g' < $f ; done