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.Dd October 20, 2005 .Dt CACHED 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm cached .Nd caching server daemon .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl nst .Op Fl i Ar cachename .Op Fl I Ar cachename .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm - is the system caching daemon. It can cache almost all types of data and is basically intended to be used with
a nsswitch subsystem. The cache is actually per-user. It means that each user can work only with the cached data, that were cached by him and can't poison the cache of other users. .Nm supports 2 types of caching: l -tag -width Pair t Sy Type .Sy Description t Common caching Each cached element is the the key+value pair. This type of caching supports policies, which are applied, when maximum number of cached elements is exceeded. 3 policies are available:
a FIFO (first in - first out),
a LRU (least recently used) and
a LFU (least frequently used). This type of caching is used with .Fn getXXXbyname - like functions. t Multipart caching Each cached element is the part of the elements sequence. This type of caching is intended to be used with .Fn getXXXent - like functions. .El
p .Nm is able not only to cache elements, but to perform the actual nsswitch lookups by itself. To enable this feature use
a perform-actual-lookups parameter in the .Xr cached.conf 5
p .Nm recognizes the following runtime options: l -tag -width indent t Fl n Do not daemonize. .Nm doesn't fork and doesn't disconnect itself from the terminal. t Fl s Single-threaded mode. Forces using only one thread for all processing purposes (it overrides the
a threads parameter in the .Xr cached.conf 5 file). t Fl t Trace mode. All trace messages would be written to the stdout. This mode is usually used with .Fl n and .Fl s flags for debugging purposes. t Fl i Ar cachename Invalidates personal cache. When specified, .Nm acts as the administration tool. It asks the already running .Nm to invalidate the specified part of the cache of the calling user. For example, you may want sometimes to invalidate your
a hosts cache. You can specify
a all as the
a cachename to invalidate your personal cache as a whole. You can't use this option for the cachename, for which the
a perform-actual-lookups option is enabled. t Fl I Ar cachename Invalidates the cache for every user. When specified, .Nm acts as the administration tool. It asks the already running .Nm to invalidate the specified part of the cache for every user. You can specify
a all as the
a cachename to invalidate the whole cache. Only root can use this option. .El .Sh FILES .Xr cached.conf 5 .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr cached.conf 5 .Xr nsswitch.conf 5 .Xr nsdispatch 3 .Sh "AUTHORS" Michael Bushkov .Aq bushman@rsu.ru .Sh "BUGS" To report bugs or suggestions please mail me .Aq bushman@rsu.ru