How to flush nscd cache in Linux

After adding user to a new group in LDAP I've noticed that change has been detected on almost all hosts except one. First I thought that maybe LDAP configuration on that host is broken but everything else was working fine except that one user showing invalid group membership.

Uncle google told me to restart nscd service - it didn't help.

However stopping nscd daemon completely seems to fix the issue, when I checked user again (groups user or id user) it shown the correct, updated group membership.

Nscd manual described valuable option which helped me resolve this issue. You need to use -i (invalidate) and provide cached table name to get it updated.

After running:

nscd -i group

caching daemon started responding with up-to-date data.

In similar way you may fix hosts cache to prevent keep old dns responses:
nscd -i hosts

Btw: if interested you may check what's in the current nscd database in /var/db/nscd folder. Tables stored in that folder are in binary folder so you may consider running strings on each table which you want to review.