The original notes were obsolete, current nscd watches changes in config files. Signed-off-by: Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/man8/nscd.8 b/man8/nscd.8 index ecbd9ba..987efcb 100644 --- a/man8/nscd.8 +++ b/man8/nscd.8 @@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ .\" write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, .\" Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. .\" -.TH NSCD 8 1999-10-01 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.\" 2008-12-05 Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> +.\" Rewrite the NOTES section to reflect modern reality +.\" +.TH NSCD 8 2008-12-05 "GNU" "Linux Programmer's Manual" .SH NAME /usr/sbin/nscd \- name service cache daemon .SH DESCRIPTION @@ -55,16 +58,29 @@ calls remain uncached as a result. .B "\-\-help" will give you a list with all options and what they do. .SH NOTES -Nscd doesn't know anything about the underlying protocols for a -service. -This also means, that if you change -.I /etc/resolv.conf -for DNS queries, nscd will continue to use the old one if you have -configured -.I /etc/nsswitch.conf -to use DNS for host lookups. -In such a case, you need to restart -nscd. +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 +.IR "/etc/hosts " and " /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 newer is used) +and this auto-detection does not cover configuration files +required by non-standard NSS modules, if any are specified in +.IR /etc/nsswitch.conf . +In that case, you need to call +.I nscd -i DATABASE +after changing the configuration file of the database +so that +.B nscd +invalidates its cache. .SH "SEE ALSO" .BR nscd.conf (5), .BR nsswitch.conf (5) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
