PMIESTATUS(1)

💖 PMIESTATUS(1) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to pmiestatus — it's a lil helper from the General Commands Manual squad, and it's here to spill the tea on your pmie stats files. 🫖✨

✨ NAME ✨

pmiestatus — the icon that displays information from a pmie stats file. 👑

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

pmiestatus statsfile [...]

Like… you hand it one or more stats files and it just goes. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So here's the vibe: pmiestatus displays information used to identify a running pmie(1) process. That's literally its whole main character moment. 🌟

And who's actually out here calling it? Bestie, it's mostly used by pmie_check(1) and pmie_daily(1) when they hunt for instances of pmie to check against the control file. They're the ones doing the hunting, pmiestatus is the one reading the receipts. 🔍

No cap, it's a behind-the-scenes queen. Not loud, just useful. Periodt. 💜

🎀 FILES 🎀

• $PCP_TMP_DIR/pmie/* — pmie stats files. That's the stash, that's where the data lives. 🍓

🌈 PCP ENVIRONMENT 🌈

Environment variables with the prefix PCP_ are used to parameterize the file and directory names used by PCP. Fr fr, that's how the whole thing finds its way around. 🧚

On each installation, the file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for these variables. So that's the home base, the source of truth. ✨

And here's the fun part — the $PCP_CONF variable may be used to specify an alternative configuration file, as described in pcp.conf(5). So if you wanna point it somewhere else? You literally can. Iconic behaviour. 💅

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

pmie(1), pmie_check(1), pmie_daily(1), pcp.conf(5) and pcp.env(5).

Go read those too, bestie, they're the rest of the friend group. 🫶

And that's a wrap! 💖 This lil page is brought to you by Performance Co-Pilot (PCP, obviously, the moment, the legend) — the whole thing is literally titled PMIESTATUS(1) and it belongs to the Performance Co-Pilot crew. Now go check your stats files, you gorgeous nerd. 💀✨