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27.Dd October 20, 2005 28.Dt CACHED 8 29.Os 30.Sh NAME 31.Nm cached |
32.Nd "caching server daemon" |
33.Sh SYNOPSIS 34.Nm 35.Op Fl nst 36.Op Fl i Ar cachename 37.Op Fl I Ar cachename 38.Sh DESCRIPTION 39.Nm |
40is the system caching daemon. |
41It can cache almost all types of data and is basically intended to be used |
42with the |
43.Pa nsswitch 44subsystem. |
45The cache is actually per-user. 46This means that each user can work only with the 47cached data that was cached locally and cannot poison the cache of other users. 48The |
49.Nm |
50utility supports two types of caching: |
51.Bl -tag -width Pair 52.It Sy Type 53.Sy Description 54.It Common caching 55Each cached element is the the key+value pair. |
56This type of caching supports policies which are applied when maximum |
57number of cached elements is exceeded. |
58Three policies are available: |
59.Pa FIFO 60(first in - first out), 61.Pa LRU 62(least recently used) and 63.Pa LFU 64(least frequently used). |
65This type of caching is used with the |
66.Fn getXXXbyname |
67family of functions. |
68.It Multipart caching 69Each cached element is the part of the elements sequence. |
70This type of caching is intended to be used with the |
71.Fn getXXXent |
72family of functions. |
73.El 74.Pp |
75The |
76.Nm |
77utility is able not only to cache elements, but to perform the actual nsswitch 78lookups by itself. 79To enable this feature use the |
80.Pa perform-actual-lookups 81parameter in the 82.Xr cached.conf 5 83.Pp |
84The |
85.Nm |
86utility recognizes the following runtime options: |
87.Bl -tag -width indent 88.It Fl n 89Do not daemonize. 90.Nm |
91will not fork or disconnect itself from the terminal. |
92.It Fl s 93Single-threaded mode. 94Forces using only one thread for all processing purposes (it overrides 95the 96.Pa threads 97parameter in the 98.Xr cached.conf 5 99file). 100.It Fl t 101Trace mode. |
102All trace messages will be written to stdout. |
103This mode is usually used with 104.Fl n 105and 106.Fl s |
107flags are used for debugging purposes. |
108.It Fl i Ar cachename |
109Invalidates personal cache. 110When specified, |
111.Nm |
112acts as the administration tool. 113It asks the already running |
114.Nm 115to invalidate the specified part of the cache of the |
116calling user. 117For example, sometimes you may want to invalidate your |
118.Pa hosts |
119cache. 120You can specify |
121.Pa all 122as the 123.Pa cachename |
124to invalidate your personal cache as a whole. 125You cannot use this option for the cachename, for which |
126the 127.Pa perform-actual-lookups 128option is enabled. 129.It Fl I Ar cachename |
130Invalidates the cache for every user. 131When specified, |
132.Nm |
133acts as the administration tool. 134It asks the already |
135running 136.Nm 137to invalidate the specified part of the cache for |
138every user. 139You can specify |
140.Pa all 141as the 142.Pa cachename |
143to invalidate the whole cache. 144Only the root can use this option. |
145.El 146.Sh FILES 147.Xr cached.conf 5 148.Sh SEE ALSO 149.Xr cached.conf 5 150.Xr nsswitch.conf 5 151.Xr nsdispatch 3 152.Sh "AUTHORS" |
153.An Michael Bushkov Aq bushman@rsu.ru |
154.Sh "BUGS" |
155To report bugs or suggestions please mail me: |
156.Aq bushman@rsu.ru |