cachefilesd(8)

cachefilesd8

Cachefiles userspace management daemon

Usage

cachefilesd [-d] * [-s] [-n] [-N] [-f <configfile>]

Overview

The cachefilesd daemon manages the cache data store that is used by network filesystems such a AFS and NFS to cache data locally on disk.

The README file should be read before attempting to configure this facility:

/usr/share/doc/cachefilesd/README

Options

-d

Turn on debugging mode (message written to stderr).

-s

Don't use syslog.

-n

Don't daemonise.

-N

Disable culling and scanning to fill the cull table.

-p <pidfile>

Use an alternate PID file to /var/run/cachefilesd.pid.

-f <configfile>

Read the alternate configuration files.

Files

/etc/cachefilesd.conf

Releases

7 releases since Debian 6.0 (Squeeze); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 6.0–8
  2. 9–13

-N since Debian 9 (Stretch).

Authors

David Howells <[email protected]>

From cachefilesd 0.10.10-0.4 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.