man(8)

💖 man(8) — influxd 💖

okay bestie so you're reading the section 8 manual page for influxd, and honestly? it's giving "short but iconic." it's a daemon page, so it lives in the sysadmin-y part of the manual, no cap. let's get into it 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

influxd — InfluxDB Server 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

influxd [options]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. you run the binary, you hand it some options, and it does its thing 🌸

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so like, influxd is the primary daemon process for the InfluxDB system 🫶 it's the main character of the InfluxDB party — the daemon that everything else revolves around. periodt. 👑

✨ OPTIONS ✨

okay here's where it gets juicy. there are four (4) options, and yes we're doing all of them, don't skip ✨

• -config <path> — tells it which configuration file to use. give it a path, bestie 🗂️
• -hostname <name> — overrides the hostname. and listen, this one's important: the 'hostname' configuration option will be overridden. like, straight up, the config file doesn't get a say anymore. it's giving "we're not asking, we're telling" 😭
• -join <url> — joins the server to an existing cluster 🦋 give it a url and it's in the group chat with everybody else.
• -pidfile <path> — writes the process ID to a file. handy little path moment so you can find your daemon later 🎀

✨ SEE ALSO ✨

• influx(1) — yeah go read that one too, iykyk 💜

✨ AUTHOR ✨

written by Alexandre Viau (alexandre@alexandreviau.net) — thank you king, we appreciate you 🙈💖

ngl, this is a small page. read it, run it, slay. don't skip the options just because there's only four — that -hostname override is real 🌈

and that's a wrap bestie!! this page is from version 1.0, dated 18 July 2015 🎂 it's an oldie but a goodie, and the man(8) section is lucky to have it. mwah 💋✨🦋🌸