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.IX Title "COLLECTDMON 1"
.TH COLLECTDMON 1 2024-03-07 5.12.0.git collectd
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.SH NAME
collectdmon \- Monitoring daemon for collectd
.SH SYNOPSIS
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
collectdmon \fI[options]\fR [\-\- \fIcollectd options\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
collectdmon is a small "wrapper" daemon which starts and monitors the collectd
daemon. If collectd terminates it will automatically be restarted, unless
collectdmon was told to shut it down.
.SH OPTIONS
.IX Header "OPTIONS"
collectdmon supports the following options:
.IP "\fB\-c\fR \fI<path>\fR" 4
.IX Item "-c <path>"
Specify the pathname of the collectd binary. You may either specify an
absolute path or simply the name of the binary in which case the \fBPATH\fR
variable will be searched for it. The default is "\fBcollectd\fR".
.IP "\fB\-P\fR \fI<pid\-file>\fR" 4
.IX Item "-P <pid-file>"
Specify the pid file. The default is "\fI/var/run/collectdmon.pid\fR".
.IP \fB\-h\fR 4
.IX Item "-h"
Output usage information and exit.
.IP "\fIcollectd options\fR" 4
.IX Item "collectd options"
Specify options that are passed on to collectd. If it is not already included,
\&\fB\-f\fR will be added to these options. See \fBcollectd\fR\|(1).
.SH SIGNALS
.IX Header "SIGNALS"
\&\fBcollectdmon\fR accepts the following signals:
.IP "\fBSIGINT\fR, \fBSIGTERM\fR" 4
.IX Item "SIGINT, SIGTERM"
These signals cause \fBcollectdmon\fR to terminate \fBcollectd\fR, wait for its
termination and then shut down.
.IP \fBSIGHUP\fR 4
.IX Item "SIGHUP"
This signal causes \fBcollectdmon\fR to terminate \fBcollectd\fR, wait for its
termination and then restart it.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
\&\fBcollectd\fR\|(1),
\&\fBcollectd.conf\fR\|(5),
<http://collectd.org/>
.SH AUTHOR
.IX Header "AUTHOR"
collectd has been written by Florian Forster <octo at collectd.org>
and many contributors (see `AUTHORS').
.PP
collectdmon has been written by Sebastian Harl <sh@tokkee.org>.