X-Git-Url: https://git.octo.it/?p=rrdtool.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Frrdtool.pod;h=0d701ca4a420818fd431cb47c57d1b40e222ea9a;hp=84749af542042fb0a507492f8f9e90e50e8b390f;hb=7cd3bc3512c11bb861490bb65553cea5cc0c98b4;hpb=ac630adec930653637199258efd99024d49325c7 diff --git a/doc/rrdtool.pod b/doc/rrdtool.pod index 84749af..0d701ca 100644 --- a/doc/rrdtool.pod +++ b/doc/rrdtool.pod @@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ B can be remotely controlled through a set of pipes. This saves a considerable amount of startup time when you plan to make B do a lot of things quickly. Check the section on L further down. There is also a number of language bindings -for RRDtool which allow you to use it directly from perl, python, tcl, -php, etc. +for RRDtool which allow you to use it directly from Perl, python, Tcl, +PHP, etc. =over 8 @@ -93,9 +93,9 @@ Change the size of individual RRAs. This is dangerous! Check L. Export data retrieved from one or several RRDs. Check L. -=item B +=item B -Flush the values for a spcific RRD file from memory. Check L. +Flush the values for a specific RRD file from memory. Check L. =item B @@ -113,9 +113,9 @@ L. When monitoring the state of a system, it is convenient to have the data available at a constant time interval. Unfortunately, you may not always be able to fetch data at exactly the time you want -to. Therefore B lets you update the logfile at any time you +to. Therefore B lets you update the log file at any time you want. It will automatically interpolate the value of the data-source -(B) at the latest official time-slot (intervall) and write this +(B) at the latest official time-slot (interval) and write this interpolated value to the log. The original value you have supplied is stored as well and is also taken into account when interpolating the next log entry. @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ followed by timing information of the form BI BI. Both values are the running totals of seconds since RRDtool was started. If an error occurs, a line of the form 'C I' will be printed instead. B will not abort, -unless something realy serious happens. If +unless something really serious happens. If a B is specified and the UID is 0, RRDtool will do a chroot to that workdir. If the UID is not 0, RRDtool only changes the current directory to B. @@ -295,7 +295,7 @@ I. For example: Don't forget to create the database directory /var/rrd and reinitialize your inetd. -If all was setup correctly, you can access the server with perl +If all was setup correctly, you can access the server with Perl sockets, tools like netcat, or in a quick interactive test by using 'telnet localhost rrdsrv'. @@ -306,13 +306,13 @@ such a port unless you are sure what you are doing. For very big setups, updating thousands of RRD files often becomes a serious IO problem. If you run into such problems, you might want to take a look at -L, a caching daemon for RRDTool which may help you lessen the +L, a caching daemon for RRDtool which may help you lessen the stress on your disks. =head1 SEE ALSO rrdcreate, rrdupdate, rrdgraph, rrddump, rrdfetch, rrdtune, rrdlast, rrdxport, -rrdflush, rrdcached +rrdflushcached, rrdcached =head1 BUGS