kb.hurricane-ridge.com » nscd http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com My personal - but public - knowledge base Mon, 09 Jan 2012 14:49:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Flushing nscd’s cache http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/os/linux/rhel/flushing-nscds-cache http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/os/linux/rhel/flushing-nscds-cache#comments Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:06:33 +0000 admin http://kb.hurricane-ridge.com/?p=771 By default, in RHEL, nscd is configured to have a persistent cache – one that is “stored on the disk and therefore survive[s] a nscd restart or e.g. machine reboot” according to the nscd.conf man page.

To flush the cache, you must run nscd with the “-i” flag instead of simply restarting it:


sudo nscd -i passwd -i group

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