Administering LDAP-UX Client Services

Using The LDAP-UX Client Daemon

A negative cache is used to store the automount entry data about non-existent information. For example, if a user requests information about an automount entry that does not exist, the LDAP directory server will not return an entry, all the negative result will be stored in the negative cache.

setting=value

enable=<yesno>

ldapclientd only caches entries for this section, when it is enabled. By default, caching is enabled.

poscache_ttl=<0-2147483647>

The time, in seconds, before a cache entry expires from the positive cache. The default value is 1800 (30 minutes).

negcache_ttl=<1-2147483647>

The time, in seconds, before a cache entry expires from the negative cache.

The default value is 1800 (30 minutes).

[automountMap] Cache settings for the automount map cache.

 

setting=value

 

enable=<yesno>

 

ldapclientd only caches entries for this section, when

 

it is enabled. By default, caching is enabled.

 

poscache_ttl=<0-2147483647>

 

The time, in seconds, before a cache entry expires from

 

the positive cache. The default value is 1800 (30

 

minutes).

 

negcache_ttl=<1-2147483647>

 

The time, in seconds, before a cache entry expires from

 

the negative cache.

 

The default value is 7200 (2 hours).

[printers]

Any printer setting defined here will be used by the

 

LDAP printer configurator.

 

start=<yesno>

 

Determines if the printer configurator service will start

 

when ldapclientd is initialized. If it is enabled, the

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