[PATCH] nscd: Improve nscd.conf comments.

Carlos O'Donell carlos@redhat.com
Fri Aug 16 15:22:00 GMT 2019


Pinging this patch again now that 2.31 is out.

Now without format=flowed :-(

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Cheers,
Carlos.

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From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:11:32 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] nscd: Improve nscd.conf comments.

This change adds a warning to nscd.conf about running multiple caching
services together and that it may lead to unexpected behaviours. Also we
add a note that enabling the 'shared' option will cause cache hit rates
to be misreported (a side effect of the implementation).
---
 ChangeLog      | 4 ++++
 nscd/nscd.conf | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 23df9a3545..6309e7cac7 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2019-08-16  Carlos O'Donell  <carlos@redhat.com>
+
+	* nscd/nscd.conf: Add warning and comment about shared option.
+
 2019-08-16  Carlos O'Donell  <carlos@redhat.com>
 
 	* nss/nsswitch.conf: Expand comments, and simplify defaults.
diff --git a/nscd/nscd.conf b/nscd/nscd.conf
index 39b875912d..ec8a8c1622 100644
--- a/nscd/nscd.conf
+++ b/nscd/nscd.conf
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 #
 # An example Name Service Cache config file.  This file is needed by nscd.
 #
+# WARNING: Running nscd with a secondary caching service like sssd may lead to
+#          unexpected behaviour, especially with how long entries are cached.
+#
 # Legal entries are:
 #
 #	logfile			<file>
@@ -23,6 +26,9 @@
 #	check-files		<service> <yes|no>
 #	persistent		<service> <yes|no>
 #	shared			<service> <yes|no>
+#	NOTE: Setting 'shared' to a value of 'yes' will accelerate the lookup
+#	      with the help of the client, but these lookups will not be
+#	      counted as cache hits i.e. 'nscd -g' may show '0%'.
 #	max-db-size		<service> <number bytes>
 #	auto-propagate		<service> <yes|no>
 #
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2.21.0



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