How clear DNS cache?

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#1

How do i clear the DNS cache on OpenSUSE? I tried “/usr/sbin/nscd restart” but that throws the error: “wrong number of arguments”. What should I do?

#2

/etc/init.d/nscd restart

or

rcnscd restart

#3

Hi
Your trying to used the daemon rather than the script… use;


sudo /etc/init.d/nscd restart

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#4

Thanks, that did it!

#5

or ’ service nscd restart ’

:wink:

#6

Yes, that seems to have been added since SUSE 9 or 10 to make life easier for people used to RedHat based systems. I never liked it though. As usual, the SuSE people put more thought into their scheme at the beginning. You see, you can do, for example:

rcn<tab>

and get tab completion for that prefix, which you can’t with RH’s service. (Unless you configure bash’s completion for the service command, which is possible.)

#7

Now that is handy! Listing services with ‘services -s’ would be the closest you could get to that, but it does not complete the service name for you.