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