NAME¶
nscd —
name service caching
daemon
SYNOPSIS¶
DESCRIPTION¶
Nscd caches libc-issued requests to the Name Service. If
retrieving NSS data is fairly expensive,
nscd is able to
speed up consecutive access to the same data dramatically and increase overall
system performance.
Nscd should be run at boot time by
/etc/init.d/nscd.
OPTIONS¶
- -d,
--debug
- Do not fork and display messages on the current tty.
- -f,
--config-file NAME
- Read configuration data from NAME. For a
description of the config file format, see nscd.conf(5).
- -g,
--statistic
- Print current configuration statistics.
- -i,
--invalidate TABLE
- Invalidate the specified TABLE, i. e.
forget all data cached therein. This should be used if the database
storing this information has been changed.
- -K,
--shutdown
- Quit a running nscd process.
- -S,
--secure TABLE
- Use a separate cache for each user.
- -t,
--nthreads NUMBER
- Start NUMBER threads. This denotes the
maximum number of requests that can be handled simultaneously. The default
is set in the configuration file. (See nscd.conf(5).)
- -?,
--help
- Print the list of available options.
- --usage
- Print a short usage message.
- -V,
--version
- Print program version.
FILES¶
- /etc/nscd.conf
- Nscd configuration file. See nscd.conf(5)
for more information.
- /etc/nsswitch.conf
- Name Service Switch configuration. See nsswitch.conf(5) for
more information.
SEE ALSO¶
GNU C Library info file,
nscd.conf(5),
nsswitch.conf(5)