Re: [squid-users] cache_dir

trainier@kalsec.com wrote:
> I have been asked to continue proxying connections out to the Internet,
> but to discontinue caching web traffic.
>
> After reading the FAQ and the config guide (2.6STABLE12) I found that:
> 'cache_dir null' Is the approach. It's failing.
> The error is: Daemon: FATAL: Bungled squid.conf line 19: cache_dir null

For 2.6 you need to add --enable-storeio=null with the other FS you want
to use.

>
> For giggles, I even tried giving cache_dir null an option of a directory,
> which also failed.

That was the right approach :-) just at tad early

The config line does need a path still in 2.6, a small problem that has
been cleaned up for 3.1 and 2.7, 2.6stable18 when they arrive.

   cache_dir null /tmp

Amos

>
> The FAQ shows that this option is not enabled or available in the default
> build of squid. I'm reading through the configure script trying to find
> some verbiage that might help me locate the compile option.
>
> Here are the compile-time options I'm setting for this build:
>
> ./configure --prefix=/services/proxy --enable-icmp --enable-snmp
> --enable-cachemgr-hostname=kmiproxy01 --enable-arp-acl --enable-ssl
> --disable-select --disable-poll --enable-epoll -enable-large-cache-files
> --disable-ident-lookups --enable-stacktraces --with-large-files && make
> && make install
>
> Can someone please help me disable local caching?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tim Rainier

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