APC - problems with CLI & odd return values from apc_clear_cache()

hi people, PHP version: 5.1.1 (last built: Dec 28 2005 16:03:22) APC version: 3.8.10 Apache version: 2.0.54 (last built: Dec 29 2005 14:04:16) OS: debian I have a script that runs via the cmdline, it's used to import/update data in a database, after the script is run the APC cache needs to be cleared so that that the new/updated data is visible on the website. to do this I call a static method of my cache management class which effectively performs the following: apc_clear_cache(); apc_clear_cache("user"); this used to work, but now it does not (atleast not on the cmdline; calling the above mentioned method via a webrequest still works). I have not recently updated php, apc or apache, neither have made any changes to the php.ini configuration. someone else may have updated the OS/system (and I can't rule out that . to test the problem I ran the following code at the cmdline: # php -r 'var_dump( ini_get("apc.enable_cli"), apc_clear_cache(), apc_clear_cache("user") );' this is the output I get: string(1) "1" NULL bool(true) so apc is enabled for the cli, cache clearance seems to work but when I checking the output of the apc.php file (shipped with the apc package) I see that nothing has been cleared; performing the same apc_clear_cache() calls (by way of pressing the buttons on the page output by apc.php) via the webserver module *does* clear the cache. it seems all of a sudden that the CLI and then apache SAPI are looking at different caches - running apc_cache_info() && apc_sma_info() on the commandline show nothing in the cache whereas viewing the stats produced by apc.php (via the webserver) shows plenty of stuff in the cache (both before and after running apc_cache_info() && apc_sma_info() on the commandline) can anyone offer some help/idea/etc? Another Thing: =========================================================================== although the manual states that apc_clear_cache() should always return a boolean calling it calling the function without any args *always* returns NULL. can anyone say whether this is a bug or a documentation problem? My APC ini settings (as defined in a seperate apc.ini): =========================================================================== ; Enable APC extension module extension = apc.so [APC] apc.enabled = 1 apc.shm_segments = 2 apc.shm_size = 128 apc.optimization = 0 apc.num_files_hint = 2000 ; ? apc.ttl = 180 apc.gc_ttl = 0 apc.slam_defense = 0 apc.file_update_protection = 0 ; 1 apc.cache_by_default = 1 apc.enable_cli = 1 apc.filters = -.*\.class\.php ; +\.tpl\.php,+.*\.interface\.php,+.*\.funcs\.php ; +.*\.class\.php ;apc.max_file_size = 8M apc.user_entries_hint = 0 apc.user_ttl = 0 ; this fixes a bug that causes $_SERVER not to be defined on 2nd/subsequent requests auto_globals_jit = Off