From d34d4c80226b3f5a1b51a8e5b005a52fba07d7ba Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2019 22:11:32 -0400
Subject: nscd: Improve nscd.conf comments.

This change adds a warning to nscd.conf about running multiple caching
services together and that it may lead to unexpected behaviours. Also we
add a note that enabling the 'shared' option will cause cache hit rates
to be misreported (a side effect of the implementation).

v2
- Rewrite comment to avoid implementation details.
---
 nscd/nscd.conf | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

(limited to 'nscd')

diff --git a/nscd/nscd.conf b/nscd/nscd.conf
index 39b875912d..487ffe461d 100644
--- a/nscd/nscd.conf
+++ b/nscd/nscd.conf
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
 #
 # An example Name Service Cache config file.  This file is needed by nscd.
 #
+# WARNING: Running nscd with a secondary caching service like sssd may lead to
+#          unexpected behaviour, especially with how long entries are cached.
+#
 # Legal entries are:
 #
 #	logfile			<file>
@@ -23,6 +26,9 @@
 #	check-files		<service> <yes|no>
 #	persistent		<service> <yes|no>
 #	shared			<service> <yes|no>
+#	NOTE: Setting 'shared' to a value of 'yes' will accelerate the lookup,
+#	      but those lookups will not be counted as cache hits
+#	      i.e. 'nscd -g' may show '0%'.
 #	max-db-size		<service> <number bytes>
 #	auto-propagate		<service> <yes|no>
 #
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