Under most circumstances, rrdcached can detect a stale pid file.

[rrdtool.git] / doc / rrd-beginners.pod

diff --git a/doc/rrd-beginners.pod b/doc/rrd-beginners.pod
index 644f2f0..5ac7997 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/rrd-beginners.pod
+++ b/doc/rrd-beginners.pod
@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ data flow to update the RRDtool database.
 =back
 
 RRDtool is designed to store time series of data. With every data
-update, an assosiated time stamp is stored. Time is always expressed
-in seconds passed since epoch (01-01-1971). RRDtool can be installed
+update, an associated time stamp is stored. Time is always expressed
+in seconds passed since epoch (01-01-1970). RRDtool can be installed
 on Unix as well as Windows. It comes with a command set to carry out
 various operations on RRD databases. This command set can be accessed
 from the command line, as well as from Shell or Perl scripts. The
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ is much better than to assume a missing value was 0 (zero) or any
 other number which might also be a valid data value.  For example, the
 traffic flow counter on a router keeps increasing. Lets say, a value
 is missed for an interval and 0 is stored instead of UNKNOWN. Now when
-hte next value becomes available, it will calculate the difference
+the next value becomes available, it will calculate the difference
 between the current value and the previous value (0) which is not
 correct. So, inserting the value UNKNOWN makes much more sense here.