Oracle: Unbreak my Linux Heart

Want to move your legacy CVS repository into the next century but are afraid to loose information or damage your business-critical source code? Don't worry and please do as soon as you can! cvs2svn has released a new version. cvs2svn is a tool for migrating a CVS repository to Subversion, git, Bazaar, or Mercurial. The main design goals are robustness and 100% data preservation. Release 2.3.0 primarily improves the support for converting to git and Bazaar (including explicit cvs2git and cvs2bzr scripts). This release also adds a few other minor features and fixes a bug when converting to git with non-inline blobs.

I've been playing a bit with the nscd now and want to share some tips related to tuning the nscd.conf file. To see how the DNS cache is doing, use nscd -g. nscd configuration: 0 server debug level 26m 57s server runtime 5 current number of threads 32 maximum number of threads 0 number of times clients had to wait yes paranoia mode enabled 3600 restart internal passwd cache: no cache is enabled [other zero output removed] group cache: no cache is enabled [other zero output removed] hosts cache: yes cache is enabled yes cache is persistent yes cache is shared 211 suggested size <==== 216064 total data pool size 1144 used data pool size 3600 seconds time to live for positive entries <==== 20 seconds time to live for negative entries

Got a question about Linux name caching today. Some servers are requesting the same hostname to the DNS server every 2 seconds... Looked into it and the name caching daemon is not running. Got all the answers I needed here: alt.os.linux.redhat: Re: DNS cache on a RH9 system? . Also found a separate package called dnscache . And a HOWTO for bind to create a local DNS cache on your workstation or server. Simply starting nscd and editing nscd.conf seems sufficient for me now. BTW, here is my updated /etc/nscd.conf . If anyone has more pointers, please comment. logfile /var/log/nscd.log # use 1-10 for more verbose debugging into log debug-level 0 # 3 minimum, 5 default filethreads 5 # 32 is default max-threads 32 # restart intervals may fail if non-root server-user nscd # user granted to check nscd stats using 'nscd -g' stat-user nagios # 5 is default reload-count 5 # restart periodically paranoia yes # restart every 4 hrs, default is 1 hour #rest