utils_cmd_flush.c: Simplified / improved option parsing.

[collectd.git] / src / collectd-unixsock.pod

diff --git a/src/collectd-unixsock.pod b/src/collectd-unixsock.pod
index 0d63d4a..b7c9878 100644 (file)
--- a/src/collectd-unixsock.pod
+++ b/src/collectd-unixsock.pod
@@ -58,7 +58,10 @@ command for the values that have changed.
 
 The first line's status number is the number of identifiers returned or less
 than zero if an error occurred. Each of the following lines contains the
-update time as an epoch value and the identifier, separated by a space.
+update time as an epoch value and the identifier, separated by a space. The
+update time is the time of the last value, as provided by the collecting
+instance and may be very different from the time the server consideres to be
+"now".
 
 Example:
   -> | LISTVAL
@@ -177,7 +180,9 @@ Example:
 =item B<FLUSH> [B<timeout=>I<Timeout>] [B<plugin=>I<Plugin> [...]]
 
 Flushes all cached data older than I<Timeout> seconds. If no timeout has been
-specified, it defaults to -1 which causes all data to be flushed.
+specified, it defaults to -1 which causes all data to be flushed. B<timeout>
+may be specified multiple times - each occurrence applies to plugins listed
+afterwards.
 
 If specified, only specific plugins are flushed. Otherwise all plugins
 providing a flush callback are flushed.