Clients keeping old data

[Richard Dawe]

Hello.

Peter Bunclark wrote:
[snip]
> 
> 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.

Ack, yes, you're quite right. Sorry.
nscd seems to have a similar '-i' option.
But using that feels a bit hacky.

Regards,

Richard Dawe, Software Engineer, Riverstone Networks, UK
richard.dawe at riverstonenet.com, http://www.riverstonenet.com/