PROCMETER3-LOG(1)

✨ NAME ✨

procmeter3-log — a system monitoring / logging program, bestie 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

procmeter3-log [-h|--help] [--rc=<filename>] [--...] [...]

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

okay so. ProcMeter displays one or more pieces of information about the operating system and other resources. most of the info it shows comes straight out of the /proc filesystem — that's the vibe. and the program is modular and very configurable, like it literally has main character energy 🌈

🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

the command line options are described below, bestie. buckle up 🫶

• -h — gives you a help message listing the available outputs ✨ and heads up: this will be different for different computers, depending on the Linux kernel version that is being used and the hardware/software that is configured. so don't @ me if your list looks different 💀
• --rc=<filename> — loads the specified .procmeterrc file in stead of searching in the usual places 🔍
• --... — a list of configuration file options that will override the values in the .procmeterrc file. the format of these options is (for example) --library.path=/usr/local/procmeter3, which is equivalent to the entry in the .procmeterrc file of:

[library]
path = /usr/local/procmeter3

all spaces around the equal sign must be removed and if spaces are required in the value on the right hand side then quotes must be used around the entire command line option. no cap, that part is strict fr fr 😭

• ... — a list of names of outputs that are to be displayed 👑 this can include any of the outputs that are available (see the -h option). For the CPU usage is in a module named Statistics with an output named CPU and there are graph (-g), text (-t) and bar (-b) options. Since this version of the program does not display anything, but logs the data to a file, it does not matter which one is chosen 🦋 To store the CPU usage data you would use the command line option Statistics.CPU-t ⭐

🌈 USAGE 🌈

when started, the program will log all of the requested information on the standard output (stdout) 💖 the outputs that are displayed are those from the command line and those from the .procmeterrc configuration file. that's it, that's the whole ritual 🕯️

🧚 MODULES 🧚

the modules that are available for procmeter3-log are described in the procmeter3_modules(1) manual page 📖 go read it, iykyk 💜

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

procmeterrc(5) procmeter3_modules(1)

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Andrew M. Bishop 1998-2007 💫

and that's a wrap, bestie 🎀 this page came from the General Commands Manual, dated July 3, 2010, and it's the PROCMETER3-LOG(1) era — slay, periodt 💅✨