RRDCOLLECT(8)

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🎀 RRDcollect — Round-Robin Database Collecting Daemon (section 8) 🎀

okay so bestie, this is the RRDcollect manual page, section 8 — yes, the daemon that does the collecting. We’re gonna read it together like a group chat, no cap. 💅

✨ NAME ✨

RRDcollect — Round-Robin Database Collecting Daemon.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

rrdcollect [option]...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

The rrdcollect daemon is responsible for fetching statistical data from various sources (listed in rrdcollect.conf), typically files under the /proc/ directory. It periodically reads them and searches for patterns from the configuration file. Values are then stored inside rrdtool’s .rrd files. 💖

👑 OPTIONS 👑

RRDcollect follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes. ✨

💫 General options

  • -c file, --config=file — Specifies which file should be read instead of the default config file.
  • -n, --no-fork — Program will not fork. Very useful when testing or debugging.
  • -v, --verbose — Increase verbosity. This option also implies --no-fork, since you probably don’t want RRDcollect in daemon mode trashing your terminal.

🔥 RRD update options

  • -o file, --output=file — Specifies the file to which rrdtool(1)-style commands should be written. If the file you specify is - (hyphen), then commands are written to standard output (this case implies --no-fork).
  • -p, --pipe, --pipe=program — When this option is used, RRDcollect will open a pipe to the rrdtool(1) program and send it update commands. If you don’t give program, the compiled-in default is assumed (either rrdtool - >/dev/null or full path to the rrdtool(1) binary). The program option can be specified as a full path or just a command name; in the latter case the program should reside on PATH.

If no RRD update option is given, RRDcollect uses internal librrd routines (the preferred mode of operation). If RRDcollect is not compiled with librrd, then it will fall back to pipe-mode. 🔥

💜 Help and information

  • -V, --version — Display RRDcollect’s version, compile-time options and license.
  • -h, --help — Show summary of options.
  • --usage — Show short usage information.

🍓 FILES 🍓

  • /etc/rrdcollect/rrdcollect.conf

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

💀 BUGS 💀

Hopefully not many... 🙈

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

  • Dawid Kuroczko <qnex@knm.org.pl>
  • Artur R. Czechowski <arturcz@hell.pl>

later, besties — this was RRDcollect 0.2.10, dated 2 September 2002. periodt. 💖✨🎀

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