Re: nss_ldap periodic errors

[Andreas Hasenack <ahasenack@terra.com.br>]

On Seg, 2008-02-25 at 23:07 -0800, Kamil Kisiel wrote:
> I'm using nss_ldap on a whole bunch of machines on the network, and
> while it works great most of the time, I continuously get errors in my
> syslog. A sampling from today (these are actually from different
> machines, but I have anonymized the hostnames to be the same.):
> 
> Feb 25 09:30:25 server.example.com sshd[17495]: nss_ldap: could not
> search LDAP server - Server is unavailable
> Feb 25 11:11:08 server.example.com -bash: nss_ldap: could not search
> LDAP server - Server is unavailable
> Feb 25 21:50:01 server.example.com automount[5030]: nss_ldap: could
> not search LDAP server - Server is unavailable
> Feb 25 21:55:16 server.example.com nscd: nss_ldap: could not search
> LDAP server - Server is unavailable

This happens with processes that do fork(). Samba is a great example.
Newer versions of nss_ldap have this fixed (I can't precise which
version right now).