Joel Taqueban wrote:
>
> I'm a newbie to proxies. I have had recommendations that
> Squid is excellent so I thought of using it with my
> Red Hat Linux: There are some questions though I would
> like to raise:
>
> 1) What's the difference between the log files
> /usr/local/squid/cache/log or swap.state and
> /usr/local/squid/logs/cache.log?
> Which one is really my cache?
None of the above. Your cache is all the _directories_ under
/usr/local/squid/cache/... all those little things with numbers.
> If /usr/local/squid/cache/log or swap.state is my cache, why is
> its size larger than the /usr/local/squid/logs/cache.log?
> (I thought of the other way around since a cache stores
> Internet objects/pages )
swap.state is the cache index.
> How do I view the contents cache/log (swap.state) logfile?
> Tried 'strings swap.state' and 'cat swap.state' but instead
> had a garbled messages on my screen...
It isn't human-readable. It consists of hash-values.
> 2) How do I define in the squid.conf file that it should
> delete pages in the cache which is older than 7 days?
>
> How do I define in the squid.conf file that it should
> delete pages in the cache for particular sites, such as
> News sites (that which keeps on changing everyday)?
> e.g. ABC News, CNN, etc.
http://squid.nlanr.net/Squid/FAQ/FAQ.html is the FAQ. It answers your
questions, for the most part.
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