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.TH smicache 1  "August 10, 2004" "IBR" "SMI Tools"

.SH NAME

smicache \- caching method for use with libsmi

.SH SYNOPSIS

.B smicache

[

.B "-Vh"

] [

.BI "-d " dir

] [

.BI "-p " prefix

]

[

.I mib

]

.SH DESCRIPTION

The \fBsmicache\fP program can be used by libsmi to fetch MIB modules that

cannot be found in regular local MIB directories. 

.SH OPTIONS

.TP

.B "-V"

Show the smicache version and exit.

.TP

.B "-h"

Show a help text and exit.

.TP

.BI "-d " dir

Write fetched module file(s) to directory \fIdir\fP.

.TP

.BI "-p " prefix

Use the URL prefix \fIprefix\fP for fetching modules. 

.TP

.I mib

The MIB module to be fetched. 

.PP

Note that \fBsmicache\fP is just a very simple script that builds on

the wget program to retrieve files from URLs. It does not handle

the file attributes of retrieved modules in any special way, so that

you have to care about permissions in multi-user environments.

.SH "EXAMPLE"

\fBSmicache\fP can be used by putting the following line into the

global configuration file:

.nf

  cache /usr/local/share/mibs/cache \\

    /usr/local/bin/smicache \\

    -d /usr/local/share/mibs/cache \\

    -p http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/smicache/

.fi

You might want to chmod 1777 /usr/local/share/mibs/cache.

.SH "SEE ALSO"

The

.BR libsmi (3)

project is documented at

.BR "http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/" "."

.PP

.BR smilint "(1)"

.SH "AUTHOR"

(C) 2001-2004 Frank Strauss, TU Braunschweig, Germany <strauss@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de>

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