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<title>htcacheclean - Clean up the disk cache</title>

<summary>

<p><code>htcacheclean</code> is used to keep the size of

<module>mod_disk_cache</module>'s storage within a certain limit. This

tool can run either manually or in daemon mode. When running in

daemon mode, it sleeps in the background and checks the cache directory

at regular intervals for cached content to be removed. You can stop the daemon

cleanly by sending it a TERM or INT signal. When run manually, a once off

check of the cache directory is made for cached content to be removed. If

one or more URLs are specified, each URL will be deleted from the cache, if

present.</p>

</summary>

<seealso><module>mod_disk_cache</module></seealso>

<section id="synopsis"><title>Synopsis</title>

<p><code><strong>htcacheclean</strong>

[ -<strong>D</strong> ]

[ -<strong>v</strong> ]

[ -<strong>t</strong> ]

[ -<strong>r</strong> ]

[ -<strong>n</strong> ]

[ -<strong>R</strong><var>round</var> ]

-<strong>p</strong><var>path</var>

-<strong>l</strong><var>limit</var></code></p>

<p><code><strong>htcacheclean</strong>

[ -<strong>n</strong> ]

[ -<strong>t</strong> ]

[ -<strong>i</strong> ]

[ -<strong>P</strong><var>pidfile</var> ]

[ -<strong>R</strong><var>round</var> ]

-<strong>d</strong><var>interval</var>

-<strong>p</strong><var>path</var>

-<strong>l</strong><var>limit</var></code></p>

<p><code><strong>htcacheclean</strong>

[ -<strong>D</strong> ]

[ -<strong>v</strong> ]

[ -<strong>t</strong> ]

[ -<strong>R</strong><var>round</var> ]

-<strong>p</strong><var>path</var>

<var>url</var></code></p>

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<section id="options"><title>Options</title>

<dl>

<dt><code>-d<var>interval</var></code></dt>

<dd>Daemonize and repeat cache cleaning every <var>interval</var> minutes.

This option is mutually exclusive with the <code>-D</code>, <code>-v</code>

and <code>-r</code> options. To shutdown the daemon cleanly, just send it

a <code>SIGTERM</code> or <code>SIGINT</code>.</dd>

<dt><code>-D</code></dt>

<dd>Do a dry run and don't delete anything. This option is mutually

exclusive with the <code>-d</code> option.</dd>

<dt><code>-v</code></dt>

<dd>Be verbose and print statistics. This option is mutually exclusive

with the <code>-d</code> option.</dd>

<dt><code>-r</code></dt>

<dd>Clean thoroughly. This assumes that the Apache web server is

not running (otherwise you may get garbage in the cache). This option

is mutually exclusive with the <code>-d</code> option and implies

the <code>-t</code> option.</dd>

<dt><code>-n</code></dt>

<dd>Be nice. This causes slower processing in favour of other

processes. <code>htcacheclean</code> will sleep from time to time

so that (a) the disk IO will be delayed and (b) the kernel can schedule

other processes in the meantime.</dd>

<dt><code>-t</code></dt>

<dd>Delete all empty directories. By default only cache files are

removed, however with some configurations the large number of

directories created may require attention. If your configuration

requires a very large number of directories, to the point that

inode or file allocation table exhaustion may become an issue, use

of this option is advised.</dd>

<dt><code>-p<var>path</var></code></dt>

<dd>Specify <var>path</var> as the root directory of the disk cache. This

should be the same value as specified with the <directive

module="mod_disk_cache">CacheRoot</directive> directive.</dd>

<dt><code>-P<var>pidfile</var></code></dt>

<dd>Specify <var>pidfile</var> as the name of the file to write the

process ID to when daemonized.</dd>

<dt><code>-R<var>round</var></code></dt>

<dd>Specify <var>round</var> as the amount to round sizes up to, to

compensate for disk block sizes. Set to the block size of the cache

partition.</dd>

<dt><code>-l<var>limit</var></code></dt>

<dd>Specify <var>limit</var> as the total disk cache size limit. The value

is expressed in bytes by default (or attaching <code>B</code> to the

number). Attach <code>K</code> for Kbytes or <code>M</code> for

MBytes.</dd>

<dt><code>-i</code></dt>

<dd>Be intelligent and run only when there was a modification of the disk

cache. This option is only possible together with the <code>-d</code>

option.</dd>

</dl>

</section>

<section id="delete"><title>Deleting a specific URL</title>

<p>If <code>htcacheclean</code> is passed one or more URLs, each URL will

be deleted from the cache. If multiple variants of an URL exists, all

variants would be deleted.</p>

<p>When a reverse proxied URL is to be deleted, the effective URL is

constructed from the <strong>Host</strong> header, the

<strong>port</strong>, the <strong>path</strong> and the

<strong>query</strong>. Note the '?' in the URL must always be specified

explicitly, whether a query string is present or not. For example, an

attempt to delete the path <strong>/</strong> from the server

<strong>localhost</strong>, the URL to delete would be

<strong>http://localhost:80/?</strong>.</p>

</section>

<section id="exit"><title>Exit Status</title>

<p><code>htcacheclean</code> returns a zero status ("true") if all

operations were successful, <code>1</code> otherwise. If an URL is

specified, and the URL was cached and successfully removed,

<code>0</code> is returned, <code>2</code> otherwise. If an error

occurred during URL removal, <code>1</code> is returned.</p>

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