Imported upstream version 1.4.8

[pkg-rrdtool.git] / doc / rrdcreate.1

diff --git a/doc/rrdcreate.1 b/doc/rrdcreate.1
index 27b1bec70a1592144bdc002e9a7081f1dc7d98c5..4519333f384ce818ec409f586a6dcf03d1207319 100644 (file)
--- 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