CRICKET(1)

💖 CRICKET(1) 💖

okay so this is the manual page for cricket from the General Commands Manual (that's section 1, bestie) — a program to manage the collection and display of time-series data. sit down, hydrate, let's get into it 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

cricket — A program to manage the collection and display of time-series data

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

cricket-compile
/usr/share/cricket/collector
/usr/lib/cgi-bin/cricket/grapher.cgi

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

So this manual page documents briefly the programs associated with Cricket. Three of them. Three little icons. let's go one by one 💅

🎀 cricket-compile

The cricket-compile program compiles the Cricket config tree (found in /etc/cricket) into the format read by the collector. It is normally run after editing the files in the config tree. No options are needed — she's low maintenance, she just works. periodt.

🎀 collector

The collector program reads a Cricket configuration from /etc/cricket, compiled by the cricket-compile command, and collects and stores data according to the information found there. It is normally run periodically from a cron(8) job. she's on a schedule and she never misses it, no cap ⏰✨

🎀 grapher.cgi

grapher.cgi is a CGI program to display the data collected by Cricket in a graphical format. It is usually accessed using a web browser, e.g. using the URL:

http://localhost/cgi-bin/cricket/grapher.cgi

It will allow you to navigate around all of the targets in the config tree. like a little map of everything you're tracking 🗺️💖

ngl, this manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. Instead, it has documentation in the HTML format; see below 👇

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

The programs are documented fully by various HTML documents available via the help system, or directly in /usr/share/doc/cricket.

• dhelp(1)
• dwww(1)
• cron(8)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

This manual page was written by Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout to Matt fr fr 🫡

and that's the whole vibe check bestie — the footer on this one is just CRICKET(1), no version, no date, just the section number and the title living rent-free down there. minimalist. iconic. she ate 💅✨🎀🦋