Topic: Clearing the Web cache periodically

[Paul]

Hi.
Is their a quick method of clearing the Squid cache (Which i think is the web cache)  and  is it necessary anyway,  or is thier an automatic clearing process

regards

[Luke Drumm]

Squid does it own purging of data as required. Unless there's something out of the ordinary happening, Squid shouldn't require any ongoing maintenance.

Regards,
Luke

[Jean-Philippe]

squid -k shutdown
echo "" > /var/spool/squid/swap.state
cd /var/spool/squid
mkdir JUNK
mv ?? swap.state* JUNK
rm -rf JUNK &
squid -z

[Jim Goode]

On a slightly different topic.

I do not need to run a proxy server, and I do not see the need to cache any web pages. How can I disable both of these functions? A pointer to where this is found in the documentation would also be helpful.

Thanks, in advance, for any assistance.