Status of shadow-utils/nscd bug #125421 ?

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Sat Jul 10 21:19:02 UTC 2004


On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 03:44:06PM -0400, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 10:06:14PM +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> > What's the status of https://bugzilla.redhat.com/125421 ?
> > 
> > Summary: shadow-utils tries to HUP nscd on various operations, but the
> > patch implementing this has bitrotten; it looks for /var/run/nscd.pid
> > while it's /var/run/nscd/nscd.pid nowadays.  Keywords "EasyFix, Patch",
> > zero comments from maintainer(s).
> 
> Just done it now

Shouldn't shadow-utils instead /usr/sbin/nscd -i {passwd,group}
depending on what file changed?
That will work even with stock nscd (SIGHUP is a local patch) and
there is no need to find out the pid of nscd (just check if /usr/sbin/nscd
exists).

	Jakub





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