On 01/02/2012 15:00, John Bland wrote:
> Not very often, only when the machine is rebooted or it hits a disk
> filling up or similar innocuous problem. It just seems inefficient to
> wipe your whole software cache when you do happen to do it. Offset by
> the efficiency of sharing squids, I suppose, but it's hardly ideal.
>
> Why does Frontier squid wipe its cache anyway? If it's happy to have a
> stale cache for months on end why not just leave it alone?
for the same reason they include in the startup script a configuration
script that rebuilds the configuration every time. Luckily at least now
it doesn't touch configuration files that haven't been created in this way.
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