Hello,
Apparently i have difficulties in understanding english exactly....after using
wwwoffle for
nearly a year now, i suddenly have some silly questions - but i simply never did ask
them before.
use-mtime:
Am i right that 'access' refers to the cache (file system) rather than to the remote
server ?
Also 'modification' ?
What exactly means:
*) purging when a list of domains is specified and use-url = no:
Purge the whole domain (all URLs) or still single pages only ?
*) 'deciding if to purge on domain names and protocol':
When was the wwwoffle cache domain directory last accessed or modified ?
-- mi.
oh, well, perhaps i should explain the situation a little more ?
I made a mistake, and just purged my cache of 400 MB rather completely (and by case i
deleted
the only backup yesterday manually _and_ forgot to do it again. I am working on the
backup
automatics these days....).
A little bash script now melts 1000 browser bookmarks down to around 400 domains and
insert them automatically in the
'purge' section of the config, with age -1. My default age is rather short (14d).
The idea was, to achieve a cache with mainly important content and less 'noise'.
Also to hold sites that have vanished (mainly documetation) or may do so in future.
The problem is, of course, that other sites also pile up old but useless stuff, some
very rapidly.
As a try, I #commented the largest of them out and let wwwoffle purge. After that I
removed all the # again.
I thought i could draw a time line for 'old' stuff for this temporarily #commented
domains
easily by setting the default age. There is a commentar in the config saying:
>>
# [<URL-SPEC>] age = (age)
# The maximum age in the cache for URLs that match this (default=14).
# An age of zero means not to keep, negative not to delete.
>>
and i believed a default age of 0 would keep nothing but the previous listed domains
with specific age.
However, it purged the cache nearly completely (and i don't understand why not all),
and many or maybe all (?) of the listed domains as well.
Here's my 'purge' setting:
use-mtime = no
use-url = no
del-dontget = yes
del-dontcache = yes
compress-age = -1
max-size = 0
min-free = 0
{long list of domains with specifc age}
age = 14
Couldn't there be a kind of 'show domains to be purged but do nothing' button in the
'status' menu ?
It could give useful hints if ones purge configuration really matches.
Greetings
--mi.
