HTCACHECLEAN(8)                                             htcacheclean                                            HTCACHECLEAN(8)

NAME
       htcacheclean - Clean up the disk cache

SYNOPSIS
       htcacheclean [ -D ] [ -v ] [ -t ] [ -r ] [ -n ] [ -Rround ] -ppath [ -llimit ] [ -Llimit ]

       htcacheclean [ -n ] [ -t ] [ -i ] [ -Ppidfile ] [ -Rround ] -dinterval -ppath [ -llimit ] [ -Llimit ]

       htcacheclean [ -v ] [ -Rround ] -ppath [ -a ] [ -A ]

       htcacheclean [ -D ] [ -v ] [ -t ] [ -Rround ] -ppath url

SUMMARY
       htcacheclean is used to keep the size of mod_cache_disk's storage within a given size limit, or limit on inodes in use. 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.

OPTIONS
       -dinterval
              Daemonize  and repeat cache cleaning every interval minutes. This option is mutually exclusive with the -D, -v and -r
              options. To shutdown the daemon cleanly, just send it a SIGTERM or SIGINT.

       -D     Do a dry run and don't delete anything. This option is mutually exclusive with the -d option. When doing  a  dry  run
              and  deleting  directories with -t, the inodes reported deleted in the stats cannot take into account the directories
              deleted, and will be marked as an estimate.

       -v     Be verbose and print statistics. This option is mutually exclusive with the -d option.

       -r     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 -d option and implies the -t option.

       -n     Be  nice.  This  causes  slower processing in favour of other processes. htcacheclean 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.

       -t     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 directo‐
              ries, to the point that inode or file allocation table exhaustion may become an issue, use of this option is advised.

       -ppath Specify path as the root directory of the disk cache. This should be the same value as specified with  the  CacheRoot
              directive.

       -Ppidfile
              Specify pidfile as the name of the file to write the process ID to when daemonized.

       -Rround
              Specify  round  as  the amount to round sizes up to, to compensate for disk block sizes. Set to the block size of the
              cache partition.

       -llimit
              Specify limit as the total disk cache size limit. The value is expressed in bytes by default (or attaching B  to  the
              number). Attach K for Kbytes, M for MBytes or G for Gbytes.

       -Llimit
              Specify limit as the total disk cache inode limit. K, M or G suffix can also be used.

       -i     Be  intelligent  and  run only when there was a modification of the disk cache. This option is only possible together
              with the -d option.

       -a     List the URLs currently stored in the cache. Variants of the same URL will be listed once for each variant.

       -A     List the URLs currently stored in the cache, along with their attributes in the following order:  url,  header  size,
              body size, status, entity version, date, expiry, request time, response time, body present, head request.

DELETING A SPECIFIC URL
       If  htcacheclean 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.

       When a reverse proxied URL is to be deleted, the effective URL is constructed from the Host header, the port, the  path  and
       the  query. Note the '?' in the URL must always be specified explicitly, whether a query string is present or not. For exam‐
       ple, an attempt to delete the path / from the server localhost, the URL to delete would be http://localhost:80/?.

LISTING URLS IN THE CACHE
       By passing the -a or -A options to htcacheclean, the URLs within the cache will be listed as they are  found,  one  URL  per
       line. The -A option dumps the full cache entry after the URL, with fields in the following order:

       url    The URL of the entry.

       header size
              The size of the header in bytes.

       body size
              The size of the body in bytes.

       status Status of the cached response.

       entity version
              The number of times this entry has been revalidated without being deleted.

       date   Date of the response.

       expiry Expiry date of the response.

       request time
              Time of the start of the request.

       response time
              Time of the end of the request.

       body present
              If 0, no body is stored with this request, 1 otherwise.

       head request
              If 1, the entry contains a cached HEAD request with no body, 0 otherwise.

EXIT STATUS
       htcacheclean  returns a zero status ("true") if all operations were successful, 1 otherwise. If an URL is specified, and the
       URL was cached and successfully removed, 0 is returned, 2 otherwise. If an error occurred during URL removal, 1 is returned.

Apache HTTP Server                                           2019-08-09                                             HTCACHECLEAN(8)