X-Git-Url: http://git.osdn.net/view?p=linuxjm%2FLDP_man-pages.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=original%2Fman8%2Fnscd.8;fp=original%2Fman8%2Fnscd.8;h=0000000000000000000000000000000000000000;hp=6047543e11a1376a7ac40b0890f121759cf70c5b;hb=2460a0b8024ceb8570acdbc9208713d79458efcb;hpb=83f9e5d087c3464d5131604d3c9893479e6228eb diff --git a/original/man8/nscd.8 b/original/man8/nscd.8 deleted file mode 100644 index 6047543e..00000000 --- a/original/man8/nscd.8 +++ /dev/null @@ -1,99 +0,0 @@ -.\" Copyright 1999 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany -.\" Author: Thorsten Kukuk -.\" -.\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_SW_3_PARA) -.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or -.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as -.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the -.\" License, or (at your option) any later version. -.\" -.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, -.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of -.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU -.\" General Public License for more details. -.\" -.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public -.\" License along with this manual; if not, see -.\" . -.\" %%%LICENSE_END -.\" -.\" 2008-12-05 Petr Baudis -.\" Rewrite the NOTES section to reflect modern reality -.\" -.TH NSCD 8 2012-05-10 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" -.SH NAME -nscd \- name service cache daemon -.SH DESCRIPTION -Nscd is a daemon that provides a cache for the most common name service -requests. -The default configuration file, -.IR /etc/nscd.conf , -determines the behavior of the cache daemon. -See -.BR nscd.conf (5). - -Nscd provides caching for accesses of the -.BR passwd (5), -.BR group (5), -and -.BR hosts (5) -databases through standard libc interfaces, such as -.BR getpwnam (3), -.BR getpwuid (3), -.BR getgrnam (3), -.BR getgrgid (3), -.BR gethostbyname (3), -and others. - -There are two caches for each database: -a positive one for items found, and a negative one -for items not found. -Each cache has a separate TTL (time-to-live) -period for its data. -Note that the shadow file is specifically not cached. -.BR getspnam (3) -calls remain uncached as a result. -.SH OPTIONS -.TP -.B "\-\-help" -will give you a list with all options and what they do. -.SH NOTES -The daemon will try to watch for changes in configuration files -appropriate for each database (e.g., -.I /etc/passwd -for the -.I passwd -database or -.I /etc/hosts -and -.I /etc/resolv.conf -for the -.I hosts -database), and flush the cache when these are changed. -However, this will happen only after a short delay (unless the -.BR inotify (7) -mechanism is available and glibc 2.9 or later is available), -and this auto-detection does not cover configuration files -required by nonstandard NSS modules, if any are specified in -.IR /etc/nsswitch.conf . -In that case, you need to run the following command -after changing the configuration file of the database so that -.B nscd -invalidates its cache: - - $ \fBnscd -i\fP \fI\fP -.SH SEE ALSO -.BR nscd.conf (5), -.BR nsswitch.conf (5) -.\" .SH AUTHOR -.\" .B nscd -.\" was written by Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper. -.SH COLOPHON -This page is part of release 3.79 of the Linux -.I man-pages -project. -A description of the project, -information about reporting bugs, -and the latest version of this page, -can be found at -\%http://www.kernel.org/doc/man\-pages/.