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.SH "NAME"
tinyproxy \- A light\-weight HTTP proxy daemon
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
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\fBtinyproxy\fR [\-vldch]
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
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\fBtinyproxy\fR is a light\-weight HTTP proxy daemon designed to consume a minimum amount of system resources\&. It listens on a given TCP port and handles HTTP proxy requests\&. Designed from the ground up to be fast and yet small, it is an ideal solution for use cases such as embedded deployments where a full featured HTTP proxy is required, but the system resources for a larger proxy are unavailable\&.
.SH "OPTIONS"
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\fBtinyproxy\fR accepts the following options:
.PP
\fB\-c <config\-file>\fR
.RS 4
Use an alternate configuration file\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-d\fR
.RS 4
Don\'t daemonize and stay in the foreground\&. Useful for debugging purposes\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-h\fR
.RS 4
Display a short help screen of command line arguments and exit\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-l\fR
.RS 4
Display the licensing agreement\&.
.RE
.PP
\fB\-v\fR
.RS 4
Display version information and exit\&.
.RE
.SH "SIGNALS"
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In addition to command\-line options, there are also several signals that can be sent to \fBtinyproxy\fR while it is running to generate debugging information and to force certain events\&.
.PP
\fBSIGHUP\fR
.RS 4
Force Tinyproxy to do a garbage collection on the current connections linked list\&. This is usually done automatically after a certain number of connections have been handled\&.
.RE
.SH "FILES"
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/etc/tinyproxy/tinyproxy\&.conf, /var/run/tinyproxy\&.pid, /var/log/tinyproxy\&.log
.SH "BUGS"
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To report bugs in Tinyproxy, please visit <https://www\&.banu\&.com/tinyproxy/support/>\&.
.SH "COPYRIGHT"
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Copyright (c) 1998\-2000 Steven Young; Copyright (c) 2000\-2001 Robert James Kaes; Copyright (c) 2009 Mukund Sivaraman\&.
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This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 or above\&. See the COPYING file for additional information\&.