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+.\" -*- nroff -*-
+.\" Copyright 1999 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 8 1999-10 "GNU C Library" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
+.SH NAME
+/usr/sbin/nscd - name service cache daemon
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+Nscd is a daemon that provides a cache for the most common name service
+requests. The default configuration file,
+.IR /etc/nscd.conf ,
+determines the behavior of the cache daemon. See
+.BR nscd.conf (5).
+
+Nscd provides cacheing for accesses of the
+.BR passwd (5),
+.BR group (5),
+and
+.BR hosts(5)
+databases through standard libc interfaces, such as
+.BR getpwnam (3),
+.BR getpwuid (3),
+.BR getgrnam (3),
+.BR getgrgid (3),
+.BR gethostbyname (3),
+and others.
+
+There are two caches for each database:
+a positive one for items found, and a negative one
+for items not found. Each cache has a separate TTL (time-to-live)
+period for its data.
+Note that the shadow file is specifically not cached.
+.BR getspnam (3)
+calls remain uncached as a result.
+
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B "\-\-help"
+will give you a list with all options and what they do.
+
+.SH NOTES
+Nscd doesn't know anything about the underlaying protocols for a
+service. This also means, that if you change
+.I /etc/resolv.conf
+for DNS queries, nscd will continue to use the old one if you have
+configured
+.I /etc/nsswitch.conf
+to use DNS for host lookups. In such a case, you need to restart
+nscd.
+
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR nscd.conf (5),
+.BR nsswitch.conf (5)
+.SH AUTHOR
+.B nscd
+was written by Thorsten Kukuk and Ulrich Drepper.