Re: /etc/nsswitch cause delay in start

[Buchan Milne <bgmilne@staff.telkomsa.net>]

On Wednesday, 25 November 2009 05:55:07 vishesh kumar wrote:
> Dear friends
>
> I am facing a unique problem in openldap 2.3.43  on rhel 5. 2. If i specify
> ldap in /etc/nsswitch.conf like
>
> passwd   files ldap
> shadow   files ldap
> group      files ldap
>
>
> And then start my ldap server, it takes lots of time to start ldap server.
>
> If i remove ldap from /etc/nsswitch.conf , it start immediately.
>
>
> Can anyone suggest be any solution for this problem.

Easiest workaround is:

echo "bind_policy soft" >> /etc/ldap.conf

(Note, this is an nss_ldap issue, and delays during startup of a machine can 
be seen in the case where OpenLDAP is not running locally)