From b811bc63a9947bec6bf7fe906c16cba99bf56974 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: oetiker Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 13:55:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention that negative time values should be separated by '--' in rrdupdate.pod -- Sebastian Harl git-svn-id: svn://svn.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/branches/1.3/program@1839 a5681a0c-68f1-0310-ab6d-d61299d08faa --- doc/rrdupdate.pod | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/rrdupdate.pod b/doc/rrdupdate.pod index cc0b452..49eb8fe 100644 --- a/doc/rrdupdate.pod +++ b/doc/rrdupdate.pod @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ rrdupdate - Store a new set of values into the RRD =head1 SYNOPSIS B {B | B} I -S<[B<--template>|B<-t> I[B<:>I]...]> +S<[B<--template>|B<-t> I[B<:>I]...]> [B<-->] S|IB<:>I[B<:>I...]> SB<@>I[B<:>I...]> S<[IB<:>I[B<:>I...] ...]> @@ -69,6 +69,10 @@ timing right to the second is especially important when you are working with data-sources of type B, B or B. +When using negative time values, options and data have to be separated +by two dashes (B<-->), else the time value would be parsed as an option. +See below for an example. + The remaining elements of the argument are DS updates. The order of this list is the same as the order the data sources were defined in the RRA. If there is no data for a certain data-source, the letter @@ -95,6 +99,11 @@ Update the database file demo2.rrd which expects data from a single data-source, three times. First with an I<*UNKNOWN*> value then with two regular readings. The update interval seems to be around 300 seconds. +C + +Update the database file demo3.rrd two times, using five seconds in the +past and the current time as the update times. + =head1 AUTHOR Tobias Oetiker -- 2.30.2