NAME

       approx.conf - configuration file for approx proxy server

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/approx/approx.conf

DESCRIPTION

       Each non-blank line of the configuration file should contain a name/value pair, separated by white space.
       Comments start with a "#" character and continue to the end of the line.

       Names  that begin with the "$" character are reserved for use as configuration parameters.  The following
       parameters are currently defined:

       $cache Specifies the location of the approx cache directory (default: /var/cache/approx).  It and all its
              subdirectories must be owned by the approx server (see  also  the  $user  and  $group  parameters,
              below.)

       $interval
              Specifies  the  time  in  minutes  after which a cached file will be considered too old to deliver
              without first checking with the remote repository for a newer version (default: 60)

       $max_rate
              Specifies the maximum download rate from  remote  repositories,  in  bytes  per  second  (default:
              unlimited).   The value may be suffixed with "K", "M", or "G" to indicate kilobytes, megabytes, or
              gigabytes per second, respectively.

       $max_redirects
              Specifies the maximum number of HTTP redirections that will be followed when downloading a  remote
              file (default: 5)

       $user, $group
              Specifies the user and group that owns the files in the approx cache (default: approx)

       $syslog
              Specifies the syslog(3) facility to use when logging (default: daemon)

       $pdiffs
              Specifies whether to support IndexFile diffs (default: true)

       $offline
              Specifies  whether  to  deliver (possibly out-of-date) cached files when they cannot be downloaded
              from remote repositories (default: false)

       $max_wait
              Specifies how many seconds an approx(8) process will wait for a concurrent download of a  file  to
              complete, before attempting to download the file itself (default: 10)

       $curl_path
              Specifies the path to the curl binary (default: /usr/bin/curl)

       $verbose
              Specifies whether informational messages should be printed in the log (default: false)

       $debug Specifies whether debugging messages should be printed in the log (default: false)

       The other name/value pairs  are used to map distribution names to remote repositories.  For example,

              debian          http://ftp.debian.org/debian
              security        http://security.debian.org

TCP PORT NUMBER

       The  port  on which approx(8) listens is not specified in this file, but in /etc/inetd.conf.  The default
       value is 9999, for compatibility with apt-proxy(8), but it may be changed by running the command

              dpkg-reconfigure approx

SEE ALSO

       approx(8), inetd(8)

AUTHOR

       Eric Cooper <ecc@cmu.edu>

                                                    Apr 2012                                      APPROX.CONF(5)