X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org/?p=lttng-tools.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fman%2Flttng-metadata.1.txt;h=5d9864be7c9842a98e47c01279c5021eaddb0fc0;hp=0fa240edea998f2e17a9c3af1f109d94541dc60e;hb=b61776fb63d4bb14df77c0b5a15de28beed7ddfc;hpb=7c1a4458be934fec31aa27a0eb52e4d0b8cb3803 diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-metadata.1.txt b/doc/man/lttng-metadata.1.txt index 0fa240ede..5d9864be7 100644 --- a/doc/man/lttng-metadata.1.txt +++ b/doc/man/lttng-metadata.1.txt @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ lttng-metadata(1) ================= +:revdate: 28 November 2016 NAME @@ -15,27 +16,14 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- -The `lttng metadata` command manages a tracing session's metadata -generation options. - -As of this version, only the `regenerate` command's action is available. -Regenerating a tracing session's metadata can be used to -resample the offset between the system's monotonic clock and -the wall-clock time. - -This command is meant to be used to resample the wall-clock time -following a major -link:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Time_Protocol[NTP] -correction. As such, a system booting with an incorrect wall time can be -traced before its wall time is NTP-corrected. Regenerating the tracing -session's metadata ensures that trace viewers can accurately determine -the events time relative to Unix Epoch. +WARNING: This command is **deprecated**; it has been replaced by +`lttng regenerate metadata` (see man:lttng-regenerate(1)). include::common-cmd-options-head.txt[] -option:-s, option:--session='SESSION':: +option:-s 'SESSION', option:--session='SESSION':: Manage the metadata generation of the tracing session named 'SESSION' instead of the current tracing session.