X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=doc%2Frrdcreate.1;h=4519333f384ce818ec409f586a6dcf03d1207319;hb=d9822df7ed5e8122cf3a62e4e99678e94007f504;hp=27b1bec70a1592144bdc002e9a7081f1dc7d98c5;hpb=d93630a054a49f597224468ee8667af33df510e9;p=pkg-rrdtool.git diff --git a/doc/rrdcreate.1 b/doc/rrdcreate.1 index 27b1bec..4519333 100644 --- a/doc/rrdcreate.1 +++ b/doc/rrdcreate.1 @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.1801 (Pod::Simple 3.05) +.\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man 2.25 (Pod::Simple 3.16) .\" .\" Standard preamble: .\" ======================================================================== @@ -124,7 +124,7 @@ .\" ======================================================================== .\" .IX Title "RRDCREATE 1" -.TH RRDCREATE 1 "2008-06-11" "1.3.8" "rrdtool" +.TH RRDCREATE 1 "2013-05-23" "1.4.8" "rrdtool" .\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes .\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. .if n .ad l @@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ rrdcreate \- Set up a new Round Robin Database \&\fBrrdtool\fR \fBcreate\fR \fIfilename\fR [\fB\-\-start\fR|\fB\-b\fR\ \fIstart\ time\fR] [\fB\-\-step\fR|\fB\-s\fR\ \fIstep\fR] +[\fB\-\-no\-overwrite\fR] [\fB\s-1DS:\s0\fR\fIds-name\fR\fB:\fR\fI\s-1DST\s0\fR\fB:\fR\fIdst\ arguments\fR] [\fB\s-1RRA:\s0\fR\fI\s-1CF\s0\fR\fB:\fR\fIcf\ arguments\fR] .SH "DESCRIPTION" @@ -160,6 +161,9 @@ See also AT-STYLE \s-1TIME\s0 \s-1SPECIFICATION\s0 section in the .IX Subsection "--step|-s step (default: 300 seconds)" Specifies the base interval in seconds with which data will be fed into the \fB\s-1RRD\s0\fR. +.SS "\fB\-\-no\-overwrite\fP" +.IX Subsection "--no-overwrite" +Do not clobber an existing file of the same name. .SS "\fB\s-1DS:\s0\fP\fIds-name\fP\fB:\fP\fI\s-1DST\s0\fP\fB:\fP\fIdst arguments\fP" .IX Subsection "DS:ds-name:DST:dst arguments" A single \fB\s-1RRD\s0\fR can accept input from several data sources (\fB\s-1DS\s0\fR), @@ -247,7 +251,7 @@ between two updates of this data source before the value of the data source is assumed to be \fI*UNKNOWN*\fR. .PP \&\fImin\fR and \fImax\fR define the expected range values for data supplied by a -data source. If \fImin\fR and/or \fImax\fR any value outside the defined range +data source. If \fImin\fR and/or \fImax\fR are specified any value outside the defined range will be regarded as \fI*UNKNOWN*\fR. If you do not know or care about min and max, set them to U for unknown. Note that min and max always refer to the processed values of the \s-1DS\s0. For a traffic\-\fB\s-1COUNTER\s0\fR type \s-1DS\s0 this would be @@ -480,7 +484,7 @@ an average rate for that \s-1PDP\s0. If the total \*(L"unknown\*(R" time account more than \fBhalf\fR the \*(L"step\*(R", the entire \s-1PDP\s0 is marked as \*(L"unknown\*(R". This means that a mixture of known and \*(L"unknown\*(R" sample times in a single \s-1PDP\s0 \*(L"step\*(R" may or may not add up to enough \*(L"known\*(R" -time to warrent for a known \s-1PDP\s0. +time to warrant a known \s-1PDP\s0. .PP The \*(L"heartbeat\*(R" can be short (unusual) or long (typical) relative to the \*(L"step\*(R" interval between PDPs. A short \*(L"heartbeat\*(R" means you @@ -544,7 +548,7 @@ together with the time. .IP "Mail Messages" 4 .IX Item "Mail Messages" Assume you have a method to count the number of messages transported by -your mailserver in a certain amount of time, giving you data like '5 +your mail server in a certain amount of time, giving you data like '5 messages in the last 65 seconds'. If you look at the count of 5 like an \&\fB\s-1ABSOLUTE\s0\fR data type you can simply update the \s-1RRD\s0 with the number 5 and the end time of your monitoring period. RRDtool will then record the number of