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dwww-refresh-cache

DWWW-REFRESH-CACHE(8)						      Debian						     DWWW-REFRESH-CACHE(8)

NAME

       dwww-refresh-cache - rebuilds dwww cache directory

SYNOPSIS

       dwww-refresh-cache

DESCRIPTION

       dwww-refresh-cache  is  a  simple  shell  script,  which  deletes  outdated  cache  files and rebuilds contents of the dwww cache directory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

SEE ALSO

       dwww(7), dwww-build-menu(8), dwww-cache(8), dwww-find(8).

AUTHOR

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

dwww 1.11.1							February 15th, 2009					     DWWW-REFRESH-CACHE(8)

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