On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 04:45:54PM -0700, Kevin Fries wrote:
> Kevin Fries wrote:
> | aaron hirsch wrote:
> | | Do you have nscd (Name Service Caching Daemon) running? I'd check there
> | | first...
> |
> | OK, the plot thickens...
.....
> | If I close nscd, then do the getent, everything works perfect. If I
> | start it back up, the incorrect value are once again returned. How can
> | I clear its cache, and get it to re-query everything?
>
> Turned persistence off in the /etc/ncsd.conf file, stopped then started,
> then stopped, then started the service (redundancies to make sure it did
> not persist on first shutdown)...
>
> Everyone is now represented the way they are supposed to.
Cache and persistence should be long enough that IT does not have to
pay overtime but not so long that updates do not happen.
It was Harder than I expected to find this.
The -i flag should have done the right thing
try it next time.
-i, --invalidate=TABLE Invalidate the specified cache
$ nscd --help
Usage: nscd [OPTION...]
Name Service Cache Daemon.
-d, --debug Do not fork and display messages on the current
tty
-f, --config-file=NAME Read configuration data from NAME
-g, --statistic Print current configuration statistic
-i, --invalidate=TABLE Invalidate the specified cache
-K, --shutdown Shut the server down
-S, --secure=TABLE,yes Use separate cache for each user
-t, --nthreads=NUMBER Start NUMBER threads
-?, --help Give this help list
--usage Give a short usage message
-V, --version Print program version
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