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.TH PMIESTATUS 1 "PCP" "Performance Co-Pilot"
.SH NAME
\f3pmiestatus\f1 \- display information from pmie stats file
.SH SYNOPSIS
\f3pmiestatus\f1
\f2statsfile\f1 [\f2...\f1]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B pmiestatus
displays information used to identify a running \f3pmie\f1 process.
It is mostly used by \f3pmie_check\f1 and \f3pmie_daily\f1 when they hunt
for instances of \f3pmie\f1 to check against the control file.
.SH FILES
.PD 0
.TP 10
.BI $PCP_TMP_DIR/pmie/ *
pmie stats files
.PD
.SH "PCP ENVIRONMENT"
Environment variables with the prefix
.B PCP_
are used to parameterize the file and directory names
used by PCP.
On each installation, the file
.I /etc/pcp.conf
contains the local values for these variables.
The
.B $PCP_CONF
variable may be used to specify an alternative
configuration file,
as described in
.BR pcp.conf (5).
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR pmie (1),
.BR pmie_check (1),
.BR pmie_daily (1),
.BR pcp.conf (5),
and
.BR pcp.env (5).