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159 lines
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.\" Copyright (c) 2005 Michael Bushkov <bushman@rsu.ru>
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\"
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.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
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.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
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.\" are met:
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.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
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.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
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.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
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.\"
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.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
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.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
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.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE
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.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL
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.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
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.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
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.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
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.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY
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.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF
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.\" SUCH DAMAGE.
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.\"
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd April 30, 2006
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.Dt NSCD.CONF 5
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm nscd.conf
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.Nd "nscd configuration file"
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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file
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is used by the
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.Xr nscd 8
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daemon and is read on its startup.
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Its syntax is mostly similar to the
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.Pa nscd.conf
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syntax in
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.Tn Linux
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and
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.Tn Solaris .
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It has some differences, though \[em] see them below.
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.Pp
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Each line specifies either an attribute and a
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.Ar value ,
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or an attribute, a
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.Ar cachename
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and a
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.Ar value .
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Usual cachenames are
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.Dq Li passwd ,
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.Dq Li group ,
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.Dq Li hosts ,
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.Dq Li services ,
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.Dq Li protocols
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and
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.Dq Li rpc .
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You can also use any other
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.Ar cachename
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(for example, if some third-party
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application uses nsswitch).
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.Bl -tag -width indent
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.It Va threads Op Ar value
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Number of threads, which would listen for connections and process requests.
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The minimum is 1.
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The default value is 8.
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.It Va enable-cache Oo Ar cachename Oc Op Cm yes | no
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Enables or disables the cache for specified
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.Ar cachename .
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.It Va positive-time-to-live Oo Ar cachename Oc Op Ar value
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Sets the TTL (time-to-live) for the specified cache in seconds.
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Larger values can increase system's performance, but they also can affect
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the cache coherence.
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The default value is 3600.
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.It Va positive-policy Oo Ar cachename Oc Op Cm fifo | lru | lfu
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The policy that is applied to erase some of the cache elements, when the
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size limit of the given
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.Ar cachename
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is exceeded.
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Possible policies are:
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.Cm fifo
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(first-in-first-out),
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.Cm lru
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(least-recently-used), and
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.Cm lfu
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(least-frequently-used).
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The default policy is
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.Cm lru .
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.It Va negative-time-to-live Oo Ar cachename Oc Op Ar value
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The TTL of the negative cached elements in seconds.
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The larger values can significantly increase system performance in some
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environments (when dealing with files with UIDs, which are not in system
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databases, for example).
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This number should be kept low to avoid the cache coherence problems.
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The default value is 60.
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.It Va negative-policy Oo Ar cachename Oc Op Cm fifo | lru | lfu
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The same as the positive-policy, but this one is applied to the negative
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elements of the given
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.Ar cachename .
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The default policy is fifo.
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.It Va negative-confidence-threshold Oo Ar cachename Oc Op Ar value
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The number of times a query must have failed before the cache accepts
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that the element can not be found.
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At the default value of 1 each negative query result is cached and
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immediately returned from the cache on further queries.
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Higher numbers cause queries to be retried at the configured data
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sources the given number of times, before the negative result is
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returned from the cache on further queries.
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This allows to probe for the existence of an entry, and then to create
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it if it did not exist, without the negative probe result preventing
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access to the new entry for the duration of the negative TTL.
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.It Va suggested-size Oo Ar cachename Oc Op Ar value
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This is the internal hash table size.
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The value should be a prime number for optimum performance.
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You should only change this value when the number of cached elements is
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significantly (5-10 times) greater than the default hash table size (257).
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.It Va keep-hot-count Oo Ar cachename Oc Op Ar value
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The size limit of the cache with the given
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.Ar cachename .
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When it is exceeded, the policy will be applied.
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The default value is 2048.
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.It Va perform-actual-lookups Oo Ar cachename Oc Op Cm yes | no
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If enabled, the
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.Xr nscd 8
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does not simply receive and cache the NSS-requests results, but performs
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all the lookups by itself and only returns the responses.
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If this feature is enabled, then for the given
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.Ar cachename
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.Xr nscd 8
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will act similarly to the NSCD.
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.Pp
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.Sy NOTE :
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this feature is currently experimental \[em] it supports only
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.Dq Li passwd ,
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.Dq Li group
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and
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.Dq Li services
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cachenames.
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.El
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.Sh NOTES
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You can use the
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.Ql #
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symbol at the beginning of the line for comments.
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.Sh FILES
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.Bl -tag -width ".Pa /etc/nscd.conf" -compact
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.It Pa /etc/nscd.conf
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr nscd 8
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.Sh AUTHORS
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.An Michael Bushkov Aq Mt bushman@FreeBSD.org
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.Sh BUGS
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Please send bug reports and suggestions to
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.Aq Mt bushman@FreeBSD.org .
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