NAME

       smicache - caching method for use with libsmi

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

       The  smicache  program  can be used by libsmi to fetch MIB modules that cannot be found in
       regular local MIB directories.

OPTIONS

       -V     Show the smicache version and exit.

       -h     Show a help text and exit.

       -d dir Write fetched module file(s) to directory dir.

       -p prefix
              Use the URL prefix prefix for fetching modules.

       mib    The MIB module to be fetched.

       Note that smicache 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.

EXAMPLE

       Smicache can be used by putting 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/

       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/.

       smilint(1)

AUTHOR

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