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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>
.br