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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 configu-
     ration 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>

IBR				 August 10, 2004		     smicache(1)

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