Message-ID: <3A390347.2C6F2461@turk.net>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2000 19:28:39 +0200
From: Togan Muftuoglu
Hello, Suse comes with a cute, undocumented (?) program called nscd -- name service cache daemon. This is nothing to do with bind/caching only DNS as far as I can see. Does anyone know a)What it is supposed to do b)Does it add value to my system ?
nscd(8) nscd(8) NAME /usr/sbin/nscd - name service cache daemon DESCRIPTION Nscd is a daemon that provides a cache for the most common name service requests. The default configuration file /etc/nscd.conf determines the behavior of the cache dae mon. See nscd.conf(5). Nscd provides cacheing for the passwd(5), group(5) and hosts(5) databases through standard libc interfaces, such as getpwnam(3), getpwuid(3), getgrnam(3), getgrgid(3), gethostbyname(3) and others. Each cache has a separate TTL (time-to-live) for its data; modifying the local database ( /etc/passwd, and so forth) causes that the cache becomes invalidated within fifteen seconds. Note that the shadow file is specifically not cached. getspnam(3) calls remain uncached as a result. To my understanding has nothing to do with caching only dns for internet access only for lan usage
Thanks
Cliff
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