From 5db3db77a2e30fbb4b7e6f7f24babb75ebdc9c9b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Florian Forster Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 21:52:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] rrdxport(1): Document the new `--daemon' option. --- doc/rrdxport.pod | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/rrdxport.pod b/doc/rrdxport.pod index a668a20..dd604d3 100644 --- a/doc/rrdxport.pod +++ b/doc/rrdxport.pod @@ -48,6 +48,17 @@ for details. See L documentation. +=item B<--daemon> I
+ +Address of the L daemon. If specified, a C command is sent +to the server before reading the RRD files. This allows B to return +fresh data even if the daemon is configured to cache values for a long time. To +specify a UNIX domain socket use the prefix C, see example below. Other +addresses are interpreted as normal network addresses, i.Ee. IPv4 or IPv6 +addresses in most cases. + + rrdtool xport --daemon unix:/var/run/rrdcached.sock ... + =item B<--enumds> The generated xml should contain the data values in enumerated tags. @@ -137,6 +148,20 @@ The resulting data section is: XPORT:out2:"if2 out bytes" \ XPORT:sum:"output sum" +=head1 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES + +The following environment variables may be used to change the behavior of +Cxport>: + +=over 4 + +=item B + +If this environment variable is set it will have the same effect as specifying +the C<--daemon> option on the command line. If both are present, the command +line argument takes precedence. + +=back =head1 AUTHOR -- 2.11.0