Hello, Jim_Brouse/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does squid try to go out and update webpages that users frequently visit, > like if I visit www.kernel.org in the morning will it keep checking whether > it has an up to date page even if a user is not requesting that site or > does squid only update it cache when users request a particular site?
Squid does not automatically check for update pages, but you can do this with wget in a cron job. You can put a list of urls in a file and then use the '--input-file=file' or '-i file' option with wget to. For example http://www.kernel.org Other options to look at: -r - recursive --timestamping -p or --page-requisites -nd or --no-directories - Do not create a hierarchy of directories when retrieving recursively -nH or --no-host-directories -q - quiet download --tries=number - Set retries number man wget shows all the options. Then set http_proxy = http://1.2.3.4:port_num/ in wgetrc to whatever your squid server is and run wget from cron job whenever you want during the day. Squid will get updated. I am not an expert on wget, but I do use it to load/update Squid. Murrah Boswell
