COLLECTDMON(1)

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💅 COLLECTDMON(1) — like, the collectd babysitter, bestie

okay so real quick — this is the collectdmon(1) page from the collectd fam. it's a whole little manual-manual, section 1, and it's about to make SO much sense. buckle up 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

collectdmon — the monitoring daemon for collectd. she watches. she waits. she restarts. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

collectdmon [options] [-- collectd options]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so collectdmon is a tiny little "wrapper" daemon — yes the manpage itself puts "wrapper" in quotes, iconic — and what she does is start up the collectd daemon and then monitor her. like a bodyguard but for a process. 🫶

and here's the slay part: if collectd terminates, collectdmon will automatically restart it. no cap, she just brings her back. UNLESS collectdmon was told to shut it down — in that case she's like "okay respect, bye" and lets it go. periodt. 💀

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

collectdmon supports these options, and yes you should know all of them:

  • -c <path> — tells her the pathname of the collectd binary. you can hand her an absolute path OR just the name of the binary, in which case the PATH variable gets searched for it. the default is "collectd". ✨
  • -P <pid-file> — specifies the pid file. the default is "/var/run/collectdmon.pid". 🍓
  • -h — outputs usage information and exits. that's it, that's the whole vibe check. 🦋
  • collectd options — these are the options that get passed on to collectd. and listen: if it's not already included, -f will be added to these options. iykyk. see collectd(1). 💖

🔥 SIGNALS 🔥

collectdmon accepts the following signals — she's a very good listener:

  • SIGINT, SIGTERM — these signals cause collectdmon to terminate collectd, wait for its termination, and then shut down. very "we're leaving together, bestie" energy. 🧚
  • SIGHUP — this signal causes collectdmon to terminate collectd, wait for its termination, and then restart it. not goodbye, just see-you-in-a-sec. 🌈

💜 SEE ALSO 💜

collectd(1), collectd.conf(5), and <http://collectd.org/> — go read them, they're giving main character energy too. ⭐

👑 AUTHOR 👑

collectd has been written by Florian Forster <octo at collectd.org> and many contributors (see `AUTHORS').

collectdmon has been written by Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>.

so yeah, that's the whole thing 💅 — this page is from collectd version 5.12.0.348.g93f9bdcb, dated 2024-12-18. go forth and let the daemon babysit, bestie. 🎀✨🫶

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