Removing Squid proxy cache server manually

Removing Squid proxy cache server manually

If you want to delete an object in the Squid proxy cache server, which you can do is the manual way, as we will discuss how the machine memaintenance our proxy, the following can be run manually clear the cache in squid proxy.
  Removing Squid proxy cache manually :


1. Stop the running squid process

  # /etc/init.d/squid stop
2. Clean all swap squid cache directory
     here I have a partition cache5

     root@Lpse:/home/ophan# rm -rf /cache1/*
     root@Lpse:/home/ophan# rm -rf /cache2/*
     root@Lpse:/home/ophan# rm -rf /cache3/*
     root@Lpse:/home/ophan# rm -rf /cache4/*
     root@Lpse:/home/ophan# rm -rf /cache5/*
3 Make / buil return swap squid cache directory
    # squid -z

4. Running back squid proxy server

  # /etc/init.d/squid start