On 20/08/2013 4:31 a.m., HillTopsGM wrote:
> Hi All.
> I've been doing lots of reading and I believe I am understanding the basic
> concept of how to use Squid.
> /I've posted the hardware that I am using at the bottom of the post/.
>
> I have about 12 windows machines running at any one time and I was hoping to
> start using Squid to speed up the Windows updates in this environment -
> *NOTHING ELSE FOR NOW*, as I don't want the cache to potentially interfere
> with the other work going on.
> I will consider adding complexity as I go and continue to learn how to use
> it.
>
> For Practise I installed Squid using apt-get on a Linux Mint15 installation
> - install went smoothly.
>
> I found the the *How do I make Windows Updates cache?* wiki here:
> http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/WindowsUpdate
> <http://wiki.squid-cache.org/SquidFaq/WindowsUpdate>
>
> It looks straight forward - just copy and past the appropriate settings from
> that page into the squid.conf file.
>
> What I am not clear on is how to NOT CACHE anything else?
> Would someone be able to help me with that?
The "cache" directive is what controls whether the reponse to a request
will be stored.
http://www.squid-cache.org/Doc/config/cache/
Amos
Received on Tue Aug 20 2013 - 00:44:04 MDT
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