Re: [REQADM-Users-L] caching userinfo - disable-able?

[Steve W. <st...@ic...>]

On Mon, 1 Nov 2004, Matthew White wrote:
> okay, so after looking at the script and re-reading the documentation,
> having a userinfo daemon doesn't buy you much in terms of dynamic data.
> Seems to me I still need to populate the cdis file.  Is that correct?

The only real advantage to having the userinfo daemon is to dynamically
pull the info for a user who isn't in the REQADM database at all.  In
the environment where REQADM was born, it was typical for there to be
a set of many tens of thousands of potential users, but only about 2000
active common users, which REQADM really needed to track.  So when the odd
extra user showed up with a request ticket, REQADM would query the userinfo
service to get their profile on the fly and proceed.  It really isn't for
dynamic updates to existing users.

Which is one reason we're going away from that whole model now.  But in
the mean time, there's really no way to update user info for existing
people short of running reqadm-update-db (which you shouldn't do while
the daemon's running... see the reqadm-nightly script for how it puts
the reqadm server to sleep while running reqadm-update-db).

--steve