[CC+=Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@xxxxxxx>, since he wrote the original page, and may have some input to make as well] Hi Petr, On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 6:17 PM, Petr Baudis <pasky@xxxxxxx> wrote: > The original notes were obsolete, current nscd watches changes in > config files. I've applied this for man-pages-3.16, with a few very small tweaks. Thanks, Michael > 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) > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/docs/man-pages/man-pages.git man-pages online: http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online_pages.html Found a bug? http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/reporting_bugs.html -- 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
