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+.\" -*- nroff -*-
+.\" Copyright (c) 1999, 2000 SuSE GmbH Nuernberg, Germany
+.\" Author: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>
+.\"
+.\" This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
+.\" License, or (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+.\" General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+.\" License along with this program; see the file COPYING.  If not,
+.\" write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+.\" Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+.\"
+.TH NSCD.CONF 5 1999-10 "GNU C Library"
+.SH NAME
+/etc/nscd.conf - name service cache daemon configuration file
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The file
+.B /etc/nscd.conf
+is read from
+.BR nscd (8)
+at startup. Each line specifies either an attribute and a value, or an
+attribute, service, and a value. Fields are separated either by SPACE
+or TAB characters. A `#' (number sign) indicates the beginning of a
+comment; following characters, up to the end of the line,
+are not interpreted by nscd.
+
+
+Valid services are passwd, group, or hosts.
+
+.B logfile
+.I debug-file-name
+.RS
+Specifies name of the file to which debug info should be written.
+.RE
+
+.B debug-level
+.I value
+.RS
+Sets the desired debug level.
+.RE
+
+.B threads
+.I number
+.RS
+This is the number of threads that are started to wait for
+requests. At least five threads will always be created.
+.RE
+
+.B server-user
+.I user
+.RS
+If this option is set, nscd will run as this user and not as root.
+If a separate cache for every user is used (-S parameter), this
+option is ignored.
+.RE
+
+.B enable-cache
+.I service
+.I <yes|no>
+.RS
+Enables or disables the specified
+.I service
+cache.
+.RE
+
+.B positive-time-to-live
+.I service
+.I value
+.RS
+Sets the TTL (time-to-live) for positive entries (successful queries)
+in the specified cache for
+.IR service .
+.I Value
+is in seconds. Larger values increase cache hit rates and reduce mean
+response times, but increase problems with cache coherence.
+.RE
+
+.B negative-time-to-live
+.I service
+.I value
+.RS
+Sets the TTL (time-to-live) for negative entries (unsuccessful queries)
+in the specified cache for
+.IR service .
+.I Value
+is in seconds. Can result in significant performance improvements if there
+are several files owned by uids (user IDs) not in system databases (for
+example untarring the linux kernel sources as root); should be kept small
+to reduce cache coherency problems.
+.RE
+
+.B suggested-size
+.I service
+.I value
+.RS
+This is the internal hash table size,
+.I value
+should remain a prime number for optimum efficiency.
+.RE
+
+.B check-files
+.I service
+.I <yes|no>
+.RS
+Enables or disables checking the file belonging to the specified
+.I service
+for changes. The files are
+.IR /etc/passwd ,
+.IR /etc/group ,
+and
+.IR /etc/hosts .
+.RE
+
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR nscd (8)
+.SH AUTHOR
+.B nscd
+was written by Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper.