Munin:...eWorker(3pm)

🌸 NAME 🌸

Munin::Master::UpdateWorker β€” bestie, the docs literally just say FIX πŸ’€

Like… that's it. That's the description. The manpage is out here with main character energy and zero lore, no cap. It's giving "todo list my friend left in the group chat and never came back to." πŸ™ˆ

Also hi, this page ships as part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation β€” so it's a community-contributed Perl thing, iykyk. 🫢


✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

FIX

Yeah. Same vibe. The synopsis is also FIX. Not me refreshing the page thinking more text would load 😭 It's iconic in a tragic way, honestly.


πŸ’… METHODS πŸ’…

Okay so there are methods listed, and listen β€” the descriptions are, again, FIX. So I'm giving you the names exactly as written and hyping them up because that's all we've got, fr fr.

new β€” FIX

The constructor-ish one. What does it do? The page says FIX. That's the whole vibe check. πŸ’€

do_work β€” FIX

The one that presumably… does work? The manpage will not confirm or deny. All we have is FIX, and honestly that's the most mysterious thing in this whole document. πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™€οΈ

Heads up bestie: I am not gonna sit here and invent behaviour for these two. Everything the original says is FIX, so FIX is what you get. No fanfic, no guessing, no "well it probably…". Periodt. πŸ’…

πŸŽ€ COPYING πŸŽ€

Here's the part that's actually filled in, and I'm keeping it ✨pristine✨ because it's legal text and we do not freestyle those:

Copyright (C) 2002-2009  Jimmy Olsen, et al.

Then the whole license, verbatim, because the vibes may be cute but the copyright is serious:

  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
  the Free Software Foundation; version 2 dated June, 1991.

  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  GNU General Public License for more details.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
  with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
  51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.

So: GPL version 2, dated June, 1991, courtesy of Jimmy Olsen, et al., spanning 2002-2009. If you need the full license details, that's where they live. And if you're redistributing this β€” please actually read it, because "no warranty" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting in that paragraph. 🫑


Okay bye bestie, go touch some grass and then come back and write the actual docs, because this page is one big FIX and the world needs better. πŸ’–

Source/version on the tin: perl v5.42.0, dated 2026-09-14 β€” that's the Perl that rendered this page and the date it was generated, and the manual name on the header was Munin:...eWorker(3pm). Mwah. πŸŽ€βœ¨

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