From: Marc Fournier <marc.fournier@camptocamp.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 06:00:35 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Merge branch 'collectd-5.3' into collectd-5.4
X-Git-Tag: collectd-5.5.0~12^2~11
X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=collectd.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=491b8f0185c63c662bb3f395630a6d8b9913b49e

Merge branch 'collectd-5.3' into collectd-5.4

Conflicts:
	contrib/redhat/collectd.spec
	src/collectd.conf.pod
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491b8f0185c63c662bb3f395630a6d8b9913b49e
diff --cc src/collectd.conf.pod
index 3c599ebd,f5130307..0c346ca7
--- a/src/collectd.conf.pod
+++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod
@@@ -76,33 -70,16 +76,32 @@@ directory for the daemon
  
  =item B<LoadPlugin> I<Plugin>
  
 -Loads the plugin I<Plugin>. There must be at least one such line or B<collectd>
 -will be mostly useless.
 +Loads the plugin I<Plugin>. This is required to load plugins, unless the
 +B<AutoLoadPlugin> option is enabled (see below). Without any loaded plugins,
 +I<collectd> will be mostly useless.
  
 -Starting with collectd 4.9, this may also be a block in which further options
 -affecting the behavior of B<LoadPlugin> may be specified. The following
 -options are allowed inside a B<LoadPlugin> block:
 +Only the first B<LoadPlugin> statement or block for a given plugin name has any
 +effect. This is useful when you want to split up the configuration into smaller
 +files and want each file to be "self contained", i.e. it contains a B<Plugin>
 +block I<and> then appropriate B<LoadPlugin> statement. The downside is that if
 +you have multiple conflicting B<LoadPlugin> blocks, e.g. when they specify
 +different intervals, only one of them (the first one encountered) will take
 +effect and all others will be silently ignored.
  
 -  <LoadPlugin perl>
 -    Interval 10
 -  </LoadPlugin>
 +B<LoadPlugin> may either be a simple configuration I<statement> or a I<block>
 +with additional options, affecting the behavior of B<LoadPlugin>. A simple
 +statement looks like this:
 +
 + LoadPlugin "cpu"
 +
 +Options inside a B<LoadPlugin> block can override default settings and
 +influence the way plugins are loaded, e.g.:
 +
 + <LoadPlugin perl>
-    Globals true
 +   Interval 60
 + </LoadPlugin>
 +
 +The following options are valid inside B<LoadPlugin> blocks:
  
  =over 4