How To Install nscd on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nscd on Fedora 34.
What is nscd
The nscd daemon caches name service lookups and can improve performance with LDAP, and may help with DNS as well.
We can use yum or dnf to install nscd on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nscd.
Install nscd on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install nscd using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nscd
Install nscd on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install nscd using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nscd
How To Uninstall nscd on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the nscd package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nscd
nscd Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/nscd.conf
/etc/sysconfig/nscd
/lib/systemd/system/nscd.service
/lib/systemd/system/nscd.socket
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/c852cbfcf611fea71b1600be835b6c7baff160
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nscd.conf
/usr/sbin/nscd
/var/db/nscd
/var/db/nscd/group
/var/db/nscd/hosts
/var/db/nscd/passwd
/var/db/nscd/services
/var/run/nscd
/var/run/nscd/group
/var/run/nscd/hosts
/var/run/nscd/nscd.pid
/var/run/nscd/passwd
/var/run/nscd/services
/var/run/nscd/socket
/etc/nscd.conf
/etc/sysconfig/nscd
/lib/systemd/system/nscd.service
/lib/systemd/system/nscd.socket
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/e3dfeec1df7589957230d18b59ceb0a119b7a0
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/nscd.conf
/usr/sbin/nscd
/var/db/nscd
/var/db/nscd/group
/var/db/nscd/hosts
/var/db/nscd/passwd
/var/db/nscd/services
/var/run/nscd
/var/run/nscd/group
/var/run/nscd/hosts
/var/run/nscd/nscd.pid
/var/run/nscd/passwd
/var/run/nscd/services
/var/run/nscd/socket
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nscd on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.