From: Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 15:06:56 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: README.Debian: Added notes about MyPlugin.pm.
X-Git-Tag: collectd-4.0.2-1~25
X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c17512f8595c9514128e2f1fa6c336402ff20221;p=pkg-collectd.git

README.Debian: Added notes about MyPlugin.pm.
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diff --git a/debian/README.Debian b/debian/README.Debian
index 6fbb479..f7acbe1 100644
--- a/debian/README.Debian
+++ b/debian/README.Debian
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Building your own plugins:
 - If you want to contribute plugins to the official distribution you should
   read http://collectd.org/dev-info.shtml.
 
-- If you want to build plugins for your personal use only simply install the
+- If you want to build C plugins for your personal use only simply install the
   collectd-dev package and use /usr/share/doc/collectd-dev/examples/myplugin.c
   as a starting point (Note: This is already a working example, though it does
   not collect any useful data).
@@ -40,3 +40,21 @@ Building your own plugins:
 
   Restart collectd and you're done.
 
+- The collectd-dev package also provides an example Perl plugin that can be
+  used as a starting point for your own development. It can be found in
+  /usr/share/doc/collectd-dev/examples/MyPlugin.pm (Note: This is already a
+  working example, though it does not collect any usefull data).
+
+  To enable the plugin, copy it to a place where Perl can find it (i.e. a
+  subdirectory named "Collectd/Plugin" of a directory listed in @INC) and add
+  the following line to the perl plugin section in your config file:
+
+    LoadPlugin "Collectd::Plugin::MyPlugin"
+
+  or
+
+    BaseName "Collectd::Plugin"
+	LoadPlugin MyPlugin
+
+  Restart collectd and you're done.
+