nscd: Package installation doesn't create directories

[Graeme Hewson]

Package: nscd
Version: 2.3.5-1ubuntu12
Severity: normal

After installing the package (and modifying /etc/nscd.conf to set 
enable-cache to "no" for passwd and group, leaving hosts as "yes"), 
"nscd -d" reports:

13291: cannot create /var/db/nscd/hosts; no persistent database used
13291: /var/run/nscd/socket: No such file or directory

and exits. After "mkdir /var/run/nscd", "nscd -d" reports:

13327: cannot create /var/db/nscd/hosts; no persistent database used

and continues to run.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers breezy-security
  APT policy: (500, 'breezy-security'), (500, 'breezy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-9-386
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages nscd depends on:
ii  libc6                    2.3.5-1ubuntu12 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an

nscd recommends no packages.

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