X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=src%2Fcollectd.pod;h=8e68fc016ac2fea5faa2bfe7d58f0d7c30c51e05;hb=e2b289ea039269b60edd459d2d514d3f82820e3a;hp=2f7b9f707439c795fcf85acfaede29ec39821a2e;hpb=443afcad2cbacaca9bb1fd7d9ea790cbeb6ff015;p=collectd.git diff --git a/src/collectd.pod b/src/collectd.pod index 2f7b9f70..8e68fc01 100644 --- a/src/collectd.pod +++ b/src/collectd.pod @@ -49,7 +49,11 @@ config-option. Don't fork to the background. I will also B close standard file descriptors, detach from the session nor write a pid file. This is mainly -thought for 'supervising' init replacements such as I. +thought for 'supervising' init replacements such as I. If using +I or I though, starting with version 5.5.0 I is +able to notify these two init replacements, and B require forking to the +background for process supervision. The F directory has sample +I and I configuration files. =item B<-h> @@ -68,7 +72,7 @@ There are two big groups of plugins, B and B plugins: =over 4 -=item +=item * Input plugins are queried periodically. They somehow acquire the current value of whatever they where designed to work with and submit these values back to @@ -76,7 +80,7 @@ the daemon, i. e. they "dispatch" the values. As an example, the C reads the current cpu-counters of time spent in the various modes (user, system, nice, ...) and dispatches these counters to the daemon. -=item +=item * Output plugins get the dispatched values from the daemon and does something with them. Common applications are writing to RRD-files, CSV-files or sending @@ -138,6 +142,6 @@ L =head1 AUTHOR -Florian Forster Eocto@verplant.orgE +Florian Forster Eocto@collectd.orgE =cut