smicache(1)

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✨ smicache(1) ✨

okay bestie, so this is the smicache page from the SMI Tools family — one of those little utilities that lives quietly in the libsmi universe and does exactly one job, but does it slay 🫶

💅 NAME 💅

smicache — the caching method you use with libsmi, no cap 🔥

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

smicache [ -Vh ] [ -d dir ] [ -p prefix ] [ mib ]

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

okay so here's the vibe: libsmi sometimes goes looking for MIB modules and just… can't find them in the regular local MIB directories 😭. That's where smicache comes in — it's the program libsmi can call to go fetch those missing MIB modules for you. main character energy honestly 👑

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

  • -V — shows the smicache version and then dips out, bye 💨
  • -h — shows a help text and exits, your lil cheat sheet 🫶
  • -d dir — writes the fetched module file(s) into the directory dir 🍓
  • -p prefix — uses the URL prefix prefix when it goes to fetch modules 🌈
  • mib — the MIB module that needs to be fetched ✨
⚠️ real talk bestie: smicache is literally 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 in multi-user environments you have to deal with the permissions yourself 💀. No cap, that part is on you.

🦋 EXAMPLE 🦋

So the way you actually use this is by dropping the following line into the global configuration file:

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/

And ngl, you might want to chmod 1777 /usr/local/share/mibs/cache 👀🌸

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

The libsmi(3) project is documented at http://www.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/projects/libsmi/ — go read it, iykyk 📖

Also peep smilint(1) ✨

👑 AUTHOR 👑

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

okay that's the whole page, periodt 💅 and a lil sign-off to match the footer: this one comes from IBR, dated August 10, 2004, and the page is smicache(1) — catch you in the man pages bestie 🎀🦋💖

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