Re: What is nscd?
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 09:55:39PM +0900, Peter Kim wrote:
> I'm currently setting up several linux machines.
>
> When I leave my machines for awhile - a few hours - the terminal screen
> fills with the message:
>
> nscd: 222: while accepting conection: Cannot allocate memory.
>
> My screen is completely filled with this error message. Each machine
> displays a different number in place of 222.
>
> I've figured out that the 222 is a process id. I've discovered that there's
> a /usr/sbin/nscd.
>
> I've tried man nscd and I get the following error:
> man: warning: /usr/share/man/man8/sigfetch.8.gz: whatis parse for
> sigfetch(8) fariled
> No manual entry for nscd
>
> I've tried apropos nscd and I get:
> there's nothing appropriate
>
> What is nscd and why is it giving me these messages?
Nscd is the Name Service Cache Daemon, and it is only useful for networked
Name Services (such as ldap and the like). I suggest just doing "apt-get
--purge remove nscd", or "dpkg -P nscd".
I'm not sure why you are getting those errors.
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