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glibc package

  1. Bug #3365
  2. Comment #2

Comment 2 for bug 3365

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Herbert Straub (herbert) wrote :

Nscd needs under all circumstances the /var/run/nscd directory. After the installation under Breezy the startup writes no errors, but no nscd process exists. The syslog.log containing:

/var/run/nscd/nscd.pid: No such file or directory
/var/run/nscd/socket: No such file or directory

and some other errors with the persitent database in /var/db/nscd, but this is not really required. After

mkdir /var/run/nscd and /etc/init.d/nscd start the process is up and running. I searched the source and find this definition in ./glibc-2.3.5/nscd/nscd-client.h

#define _PATH_NSCDPID "/var/run/nscd/nscd.pid"

I think the postinstallation process should create this directory.