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:

$cache

Specifies the location of the approx cache directory (default: /var/cache/approx). It and all its subdirectories must be owned by the approx server (see also the $user and $group parameters, below.)

$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: 60)

$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Specifies whether to deliver (possibly out-of-date) cached files when they cannot be downloaded from remote repositories (default: false)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)

$curl_path

Specifies the path to the curl binary (default: /usr/bin/curl)

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

TCP PORT NUMBER¶

The port on which approx(8) listens is not specified in this file, but in /etc/inetd.conf. The default value is 9999, for compatibility with apt-proxy(8), but it may be changed by running the command

dpkg-reconfigure approx

SEE ALSO¶

approx(8), inetd(8)

AUTHOR¶

Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>