Description of problem: On reload, the nscd.service script tries to execute an invalid command: ExecReload=/usr/sbin/nscd -i service It's a typo, the above should be: ExecReload=/usr/sbin/nscd -i services Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): glibc-2.15-56.fc17.x86_64 nscd-2.15-56.fc17.x86_64 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. run 'systemctl reload nscd.service' 2. 3. Actual results: # systemctl reload nscd.service Job failed. See system logs and 'systemctl status' for details. and in syslog: nscd[28439]: nscd: 'service' is not a known database nscd[28439]: Try `nscd --help' or `nscd --usage' for more information. systemd[1]: nscd.service: control process exited, code=exited status=64 Expected results: After fixing the above typo, it succeeds with no output. Additional info: Fedora 17 is already fixed (or maybe it was never broken in the first place).
This was fixed in f17 and beyond. There are currently no plans to backport the patch to f16 or earlier releases.