REPOST for archive: Re: nscd again (nis client cache) patch for 6 stable branch

[Anton - Valqk]

I've been searching in the mailist archives and never found this, so 
I'm reposting for archiving purposes.

According to Denis Barov <dindin at yandex-team.ru>:

Gzipped patch avialable at
http://www.dindin.ru/wiki/FreeBSD?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=nscd_backport.gz
(78Kb)

Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 12:15 +0300 Denis Barov:
> > Hi, Michael!
> > In attachment patch for backporing nscd from RELENG_7 to RELENG_6. Tested on
> > 
> > FreeBSD sepulca.yandex.ru 6.3-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #0: Thu Dec
> > 23 22:06:36 MSK 2007
> > root at sepulca.yandex.ru:/usr/obj/usr/RELENG_6_ncsd/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> > 
> > and works fine.
> > 
> > Must I prepare pr?
> > 
> > P.S. Don't forget to mkdir -p src/usr.sbin/nscd/agents before patching  ;) 




On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 11:52:21AM +0200, Anton - Valqk wrote:

   Is there nscd/cached for STABLE 6 branch or it's only implemented 
in 7.X?

   Adam McDougall wrote:
   > I wanted to say Thanks!!! for this example, because before this point
   > I was under the impression that nscd/cached was of no use for NIS 
clients,
   > only LDAP or maybe other directory systems that I don't use.  I tried
   > "cache compat" as below for passwd and group and it works!  Our NIS
   > entries at work are big enough that without the cache, top takes 
7+ seconds to
   > open, ssh login takes a few seconds, and samba logins were 
concerningly
   > slow.  I did not try samba connections, but the other methods are 
much
   > faster now on the second run.  Wanted to post this for the 
archive too.
   >
   > On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:17:11PM +0300, Michael Bushkov wrote:
   >
   >   Hi Denis,
   >   Several things:
   >   1. You definitely can't use cache for *_compat sources. I mean 
lines like
   >   "group_compat: cache nis" aren't supported.
   >   2. Cache should work ok with the configuration you've mentioned 
in your
   >   first example, i.e.: "group: cache compat". Just checking - why 
do you
   >   think that cache isn't working? The correct way to determine it 
is to
   >   perform the same query twice. During the first pass (when query 
is not
   >   cached), the request will be processed by NIS module and you'll 
have all
   >   the NIS-related stuff in the logs. On the second pass the 
request should be
   >   handled by scd module - and you shouldn't see any activity in 
NIS logs. It
   >   would be great to see the debug log (with nscd log turned on) 
separately -
   >   for the first and the second pass. It would help to find the 
error in nscd,
   >   if there is one.
   >
   >   With best regards,
   >   Michael Bushkov
   >
   >   On Jan 17, 2008, at 9:55 PM, Denis Barov wrote:
   >
   >
   >>> Hello!
   >>>
   >>> I found some strange behaviour of NIS/nscd when NIS in compat 
mode. In
   >>> /etc/nsswitch.conf I have:
   >>>
   >>> netgroup:         cache compat
   >>> passwd:           cache compat
   >>> group:            cache compat
   >>>
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