On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 1:05 AM, timp <tim...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Nick! > > > FWIW, I have the squid port installed on hundreds of systems, however I > do > > not use the port defaults and have logs and cache on a separate > filesystem > > mounted in /squid (i.e., /squid/logs, /squid/cache). In my opinion, it > > makes sense for the port to default to using /var/squid/cache and > > /var/squid/logs, which I believe is already the case? > > No, it's not the case for the log dir. > > > In my opinion using /var/cache/squid/... does not make any sense. I'm not > > exactly sure the intention of /var/cache - my systems only use it for > > pkg(8), but it seems intended more for a temporary application cache in > > the > > traditional sense and not so much for things like a web cache that need > to > > be much larger. > > > > In reality, I would think that most users of squid with a reasonably > sized > > cache-dir would need to relocate squid cache and logs to a filesystem of > > larger size than the average /var, or mount /var/squid elsewhere in which > > case they would likely want /var/squid of the /var filesystem to be > empty. > > > Ok, a small squid installation can live with /var/squid/cache or > /var/cache/squid, it doesn't matter. If user wants to use squid extensively > he/she does the additional work manually. That's what I understood. > > Just looked into ubuntu and centos - they use /var/spool/squid as a default > cache dir. > > So as a conclusion I'd got rid of /var/squid/logs. > Cache is in /var/squid/cache and logs are in /var/log/squid like right now. >
I think that makes perfect sense as well. > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/www-squid-s-cache-dir-tp6025127p6025665.html > Sent from the freebsd-ports mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
