Bug 2197 - nscd kills tar, and probally other things.
Summary: nscd kills tar, and probally other things.
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: glibc
Version: 6.0
Hardware: alpha
OS: Linux
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medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Cristian Gafton
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Reported: 1999-04-15 13:58 UTC by Jeremiah Johnson
Modified: 2008-05-01 15:37 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 1999-04-15 14:31:58 UTC

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Description Jeremiah Johnson 1999-04-15 13:58:20 UTC 
If nscd is loaded, tar will die. tar zxvf ssh-2.0.12.tar.gz
will start extracting but will go *EXTREMELY* slow, about 1
file every ten minutes. This is being tested on a multia
with 64megs of RAM, I havn't tested this on my alphastations
yet. But will hopefully today.
Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 1999-04-15 14:20:59 UTC 
are you using NIS?
Comment 2 Jeremiah Johnson 1999-04-15 14:23:59 UTC 
No, But if you do a " install everything " nscd will be installed.
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 1999-04-15 14:31:59 UTC 
As of the current version (2.1.1-5) it's set up not to run
by default. (This may be different in 5.9.7).  What's
probably happening is that it's trying to use NIS to look
up user/group names, and is failing; you can either turn
it off, or edit your /etc/nsswitch.conf to not use NIS.
Basically, nscd should only be run if you're using NIS/NIS+.
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