NAME
approx.conf - configuration file for approx proxy server
SYNOPSIS
/etc/approx/approx.conf
DESCRIPTION
Each non-blank line of the configuration file should contain a
name/value pair, separated by white space. Comments start with a "#"
character and continue to the end of the line.
Names that begin with the "$" character are reserved for use as
configuration parameters. The following parameters are currently
defined:
$max_rate
Specifies the maximum download rate from remote repositories, in
bytes per second (default: unlimited). The value may be
suffixed with "K", "M", or "G" to indicate kilobytes, megabytes,
or gigabytes per second, respectively.
$max_redirects
Specifies the maximum number of HTTP redirections that will be
followed when downloading a remote file (default: 5)
$user, $group
Specifies the user and group that owns the files in the approx
cache (default: approx)
$syslog
Specifies the syslog(3) facility to use when logging (default:
daemon)
$pdiffs
Specifies whether to support IndexFile diffs (default: true)
$offline
Specifies whether to deliver (possibly out-of-date) cached files
when they cannot be downloaded from remote repositories
(default: false)
$max_wait
Specifies how many seconds an approx(8) process will wait for a
concurrent download of a file to complete, before attempting to
download the file itself (default: 10)
$verbose
Specifies whether informational messages should be printed in
the log (default: false)
$debug Specifies whether debugging messages should be printed in the
log (default: false)
The other name/value pairs are used to map distribution names to
remote repositories. For example,
debian http://ftp.debian.org/debian
security http://security.debian.org/debian-security
SEE ALSO
approx(8), approx-gc(8)
AUTHOR
Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>
March 2009