X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org/?p=lttng-tools.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fman%2Flttng-metadata.1.txt;h=8d78d8fadcc6f1d1e372fabab078cdc09e1ba927;hp=a146c93243d6c32b51b3472f222ea6ac8ba66e46;hb=59b19c3c82a824b602b4e3cd70e1cb22448fcb9d;hpb=1153307429aaf4fad932e72d13b44befce51c7be diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-metadata.1.txt b/doc/man/lttng-metadata.1.txt index a146c9324..8d78d8fad 100644 --- a/doc/man/lttng-metadata.1.txt +++ b/doc/man/lttng-metadata.1.txt @@ -10,32 +10,19 @@ lttng-metadata - Manage an LTTng tracing session's metadata generation SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -*lttng* ['GENERAL OPTIONS'] *metadata regenerate* [option:--session='SESSION'] +*lttng* ['linkgenoptions:(GENERAL OPTIONS)'] *metadata regenerate* [option:--session='SESSION'] 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 +WARNING: This command is **deprecated**; it has been replaced by the *lttng +regenerate metadata* command (see man:lttng-regenerate(1)).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. @@ -49,8 +36,8 @@ The `lttng metadata regenerate` command can only be used on kernel and user space tracing sessions (using per-user buffering), in non-live mode. -See linklttng:lttng-enable-channel(1) for more information about -buffering schemes and linklttng:lttng-create(1) for more information +See man:lttng-enable-channel(1) for more information about +buffering schemes and man:lttng-create(1) for more information about the different tracing session modes. @@ -59,4 +46,4 @@ include::common-cmd-footer.txt[] SEE ALSO -------- -linklttng:lttng(1) +man:lttng(1)