determines the behavior of the cache daemon.
See
.BR nscd.conf (5).
-.PP
+.P
.B nscd
provides caching for accesses of the
.BR passwd (5),
.BR getgrgid (3),
.BR gethostbyname (3),
and others.
-.PP
+.P
There are two caches for each database:
a positive one for items found, and a negative one
for items not found.
after changing the configuration file of the database so that
.B nscd
invalidates its cache:
-.PP
+.P
.in +4n
.EX
$ \fBnscd \-i\fP \fI<database>\fP