man approx.conf (Formats) - configuration file for approx proxy server

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.

The following names have special meaning:

port
Specifies the TCP port on which the approx(8) server listens for HTTP requests (default: 9999)
interval
Specifies the time in minutes after which a cached file will be considered too old to deliver without first checking with the remote repository for a newer version (default: 720, or 12 hours)
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)
debug
Specifies whether debugging messages should be printed (default: false)

The other name/value pairs are used to map distribution names to remote repositories. For example,

debian http://debian.mirrors.pair.com

security http://security.debian.org/debian-security

SEE ALSO

AUTHOR

Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>