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- Squid: The Definitive Guide
- Squid: The Definitive Guide
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- About This Book
- Recommended Reading
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Comments and Questions
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction
- 1.1 Web Caching
- 1.2 A Brief History of Squid
- 1.3 Hardware and Operating System Requirements
- 1.4 Squid Is Open Source
- 1.5 Squid s Home on the Web
- 1.6 Getting Help
- 1.7 Getting Started with Squid
- 1.8 Exercises
- Chapter 2. Getting Squid
- 2.1 Versions and Releases
- 2.2 Use the Source, Luke
- 2.3 Precompiled Binaries
- 2.4 Anonymous CVS
- 2.5 devel.squid-cache.org
- 2.6 Exercises
- Chapter 3. Compiling and Installing
- 3.1 Before You Start
- 3.2 Unpacking the Source
- 3.3 Pretuning Your Kernel
- 3.4 The configure Script
- 3.5 make
- 3.6 make Install
- 3.7 Applying a Patch
- 3.8 Running configure Later
- 3.9 Exercises
- Chapter 4. Configuration Guide for the Eager
- 4.1 The squid.conf Syntax
- 4.2 User IDs
- 4.3 Port Numbers
- 4.4 Log File Pathnames
- 4.5 Access Controls
- 4.6 Visible Hostname
- 4.7 Administrative Contact Information
- 4.8 Next Steps
- 4.9 Exercises
- Chapter 5. Running Squid
- 5.1 Squid Command-Line Options
- 5.2 Check Your Configuration File for Errors
- 5.3 Initializing Cache Directories
- 5.4 Testing Squid in a Terminal Window
- 5.5 Running Squid as a Daemon Process
- 5.6 Boot Scripts
- 5.7 A chroot Environment
- 5.8 Stopping Squid
- 5.9 Reconfiguring a Running Squid Process
- 5.10 Rotating the Log Files
- 5.11 Exercises
- Chapter 6. All About Access Controls
- 6.1 Access Control Elements
- 6.2 Access Control Rules
- 6.3 Common Scenarios
- 6.4 Testing Access Controls
- 6.5 Exercises
- Chapter 7. Disk Cache Basics
- 7.1 The cache_dir Directive
- 7.2 Disk Space Watermarks
- 7.3 Object Size Limits
- 7.4 Allocating Objects to Cache Directories
- 7.5 Replacement Policies
- 7.6 Removing Cached Objects
- 7.7 refresh_pattern
- 7.8 Exercises
- Chapter 8. Advanced Disk Cache Topics
- 8.1 Do I Have a Disk IO Bottleneck?
- 8.2 Filesystem Tuning Options
- 8.3 Alternative Filesystems
- 8.4 The aufs Storage Scheme
- 8.5 The diskd Storage Scheme
