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<h1>Peculiarities<a class="headerlink" href="#peculiarities" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>There are a couple of things that are different with Varnish Cache, as
opposed to other programs. One thing you’ve already seen - VCL. In this section we provide a very quick tour of other peculiarities you need to know about to get the most out of Varnish.</p>
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<h2>Configuration<a class="headerlink" href="#configuration" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The Varnish Configuration is written in VCL. When Varnish is ran this
configuration is transformed into C code and then fed into a C
compiler, loaded and executed.</p>
<p>So, as opposed to switching various
settings on or off, you write polices on how the incoming traffic should be
handled.</p>
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<h2>varnishadm<a class="headerlink" href="#varnishadm" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Varnish Cache has an admin console. You can connect it it through the
<a class="reference internal" href="../reference/varnishadm.html#varnishadm-1"><span class="std std-ref">varnishadm</span></a> command. In order to connect the user needs to be
able to read <cite>/etc/varnish/secret</cite> in order to authenticate.</p>
<p>Once you’ve started the console you can do quite a few operations on
Varnish, like stopping and starting the cache process, load VCL,
adjust the built in load balancer and invalidate cached content.</p>
<p>It has a built in command “help” which will give you some hints on
what it does.</p>
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<h2>varnishlog<a class="headerlink" href="#varnishlog" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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information. You can have a look at the logstream with the command
<a class="reference internal" href="../reference/varnishlog.html#varnishlog-1"><span class="std std-ref">varnishlog</span></a>.</p>
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