nscd cacher problem

[Jurek Bajor]

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> Is there a way to query nscd and ask it what's in it's cache?

Hi,
have not used it, but quick lookup below may help ?

man nscd
> nscd --help
> nscd -g | --statistics
> nscd -d | --debug
> ls -al /var/db/nscd/

Trobleshooting Name Service Information

Each name service provides tool for acquiring information stored
within it. The problem is that it displays only information pertinent
to a particular name service without understanding of the influence of
/etc/nsswitch.conf on the real behavior of the system. To solve this
problem Selecting the correct  In Solaris the getent utility provides
a generic retrieval interface to search several name service databases
in the order in which they are specified in/etc/nsswitch.conf.

Usage of the getent utility instead of service specific utilities like
nslookup, dig, ypmatch, etc can reduce troubleshooting time when
isolating name service malfunctions.

man getent

Jurek

[JD]

On 07/01/2010 12:20 PM, Jurek Bajor wrote:
> ls -al/var/db/nscd/

Thanx,
Doing sudo strings /var/db/nscd/hosts
showed the cached host names, prepended by their IP addresses.

Cheers,

JD