How To Install nscd on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nscd on Rocky Linux 8. nscd is A Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd).

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nscd on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nscd.

Install nscd on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install nscd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nscd

Install nscd on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the nscd package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nscd

nscd Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/nscd.conf
/etc/sysconfig/nscd
/lib/systemd/system/nscd.service
/lib/systemd/system/nscd.socket
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/df1cb363d82d27f26310c801b6836813aef0fb
/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

nscd website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nscd on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.