Re: nscd [was] how do you run postgres without dns server

Yes that is true too. I've checked it all. It apears that postgres tries to
resolve only through dns'...:(

I think that the problem is in the postgresql, but I can't reproduce the
problem anymore, because I was forced to install a caching dns server, and
I'm not allowed to play with it anymore (business must run).

The nscd problem:
I didn't post this before, because I thik this is not a postgres related
problem, but after a few hours playing with it I couldn't fix the problem
I have nscd + pgsql backend
I have
passwd: compat [NOTFOUND=continue SUCCESS=return] pgsql
group: compat [NOTFOUND=continue SUCCESS=return] pgsql

in /etc/nsswitch.conf
The logic of this, from what I could understand from the documentation is:
"Look in the standart files (/etc/passwd, /etc/group)" for username and
groups, if not found, search in pgsql databasee, else return successfull"

The problem is that when I stop the database and I try to `id realuser` it
gives:
# id root
Could not connect to database

The system is Debian sarge with packages:
nscd 2.3.2.ds1-18
libnss-pgsql1 1.0.2-1.2
postgresql 7.4.5-3

На 10.11.2004 16:08 Oliver Elphick написа:
> On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 12:15 +0200, Ivan Dimitrov wrote:
> > Yes, it is there
> > 127.0.0.1 localhost
> > but when i strace postmaster on startup it never looks in /etc/hosts
>
> Look at the "hosts:" line in /etc/nsswitch.conf. It needs to have the
> word "files" in there.

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