Clients keeping old data

[Peter Bunclark]

On Wed, 3 Jul 2002, Richard Dawe wrote:
>
> IIRC the Linux nis_cachemgr doesn't do any caching.
> This could explain why you see the change instantly
> on Linux, but not on Solaris.
>
> Maybe you could try invoking nis_cachemgr with
> the '-i' option [on Solaris]. See the man page
> nis_cachemgr(1M) for more information.
>
...which says. ``nis_cachemgr - NIS+ utility to  cache  location information
     about NIS+ servers''

ie, nis_cachemgr doesn't cache table information, rather it caches the
whereabouts and stats of the servers.

Pete.