From: oetiker Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 20:33:58 +0000 (+0000) Subject: improved wording X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=f799e70417af52a56a663eba05839bda25b30f11;p=rrdtool-all.git improved wording git-svn-id: svn://svn.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/branches/1.2@1150 a5681a0c-68f1-0310-ab6d-d61299d08faa --- diff --git a/program/doc/rrdtutorial.pod b/program/doc/rrdtutorial.pod index 385ed089..30a4868d 100644 --- a/program/doc/rrdtutorial.pod +++ b/program/doc/rrdtutorial.pod @@ -4,9 +4,9 @@ rrdtutorial - Alex van den Bogaerdt's RRDtool tutorial =head1 DESCRIPTION -RRDtool is written by Tobias Oetiker with +RRDtool is written by Tobias Oetiker Etobi@oetiker.chE with contributions from many people all around the world. This document is -written by Alex van den Bogaerdt to help you +written by Alex van den Bogaerdt Ealex@ergens.op.het.netE to help you understand what RRDtool is and what it can do for you. The documentation provided with RRDtool can be too technical for some @@ -219,16 +219,15 @@ and skip all of the '\' characters. =head2 What has been created? -We created the round robin database called test (test.rrd) which -starts at noon the day I started writing this document, 7th of March, -1999 (this date translates to 920'804'400 seconds as explained -below). Our database holds one data source (DS) named "speed" that -represents a counter. This counter is read every five minutes -(default). In the same database two round robin archives (RRAs) are -kept, one averages the data every time it is read (e.g., there's -nothing to average) and keeps 24 samples (24 times 5 minutes is 2 -hours). The other averages 6 values (half hour) and contains 10 -such averages (e.g., 5 hours). +We created the round robin database called test (test.rrd) which starts at +noon the day I started writing this document, 7th of March, 1999 (this date +translates to 920'804'400 seconds as explained below). Our database holds +one data source (DS) named "speed" that represents a counter. This counter +is read every five minutes (this is the default therefore you don't have to +put C<--step=300>). In the same database two round robin archives (RRAs) +are kept, one averages the data every time it is read (e.g., there's nothing +to average) and keeps 24 samples (24 times 5 minutes is 2 hours). The other +averages 6 values (half hour) and contains 10 such averages (e.g. 5 hours). RRDtool works with special time stamps coming from the UNIX world. This time stamp is the number of seconds that passed since January @@ -491,7 +490,7 @@ or ctrl-F5). =head2 Updates in Reality -We've already used the "update" command: it took one or more +We've already used the C command: it took one or more parameters in the form of "