dwww-refresh-cache(8)

dwww-refresh-cache8

Rebuilds dwww cache directory

Usage

dwww-refresh-cache

Overview

dwww-refresh-cache is a simple shell script, which deletes outdated cache files and rebuilds contents of the dwww cache directory /var/cache/dwww. In default installation, the script is called from /etc/cron.daily/dwww, so the cache is refreshed every day.

Configuration variables

DWWW_KEEPDAYS

Specifies, how many days documents that have not been accessed should be kept in the cache. Default is 10 days.

DWWW_QUICKFIND_DB

Location of the installed packages and programs cache file, generated with help of dwww-quickfind(8). Default is /var/cache/dwww/quickfind.dat.

DWWW_DOCBASE2PKG_DB

Location of the cache file, which maps installed doc-base files to packages names, used by the dwww-build-menu(8). Default is /var/cache/dwww/docbase2pkg.dat.

Files

/etc/dwww/dwww.conf

Configuration file for dwww(7).

/var/cache/dwww

dwww cache directory.

/etc/cron.daily/dwww.

dwww daily cron job

Releases

11 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); the text changed 2 times.

  1. 3.1
  2. 4.0–5.0
  3. 6.0–13

Author

Robert Luberda.
See dwww(7), for copyrights and stuff.

From dwww 1.16 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.