X-Git-Url: https://git.lttng.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fman%2Flttng-sessiond.8.txt;h=76f9dab12a0b7a782c7578fa2ef0a3af7f78fb38;hb=7a0f38c743c8e151886e3c1d58ba35c777c7206f;hp=a373415208f30021614c960755bf482d00c0d900;hpb=900690ca9a448db68aef7115d74e7f585fb322d6;p=lttng-tools.git diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-sessiond.8.txt b/doc/man/lttng-sessiond.8.txt index a37341520..76f9dab12 100644 --- a/doc/man/lttng-sessiond.8.txt +++ b/doc/man/lttng-sessiond.8.txt @@ -40,8 +40,8 @@ The _LTTng session daemon_ is a tracing registry which allows the user to interact with multiple tracers (kernel and user space) within the same container, a _tracing session_. Traces can be gathered from the Linux kernel and/or from instrumented applications (see -linklttng:lttng-ust(3)). You can aggregate and read the events of LTTng -traces using linklttng:babeltrace(1). +man:lttng-ust(3)). You can aggregate and read the events of LTTng +traces using man:babeltrace(1). To trace the Linux kernel, the session daemon needs to be running as `root`. LTTng uses a _tracing group_ to allow specific users to interact @@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Loading tracing session configurations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ By default, the LTTng session daemon tries to load tracing session configurations located in the user default directory -`$HOME/.lttng/sessions` and in the system one, `/etc/lttng/sessions`. +`$HOME/.lttng/sessions` and in the system one, +{system_sessions_dir}+. Note that both the directory containing the tracing session configurations and the session daemon binary _must_ have the same UID for the configurations to be automatically loaded. @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ option:-l, option:--load='PATH':: option:-S, option:--sig-parent:: Send `SIGUSR1` to parent process to notify readiness. + -NOTE: This is used by linklttng:lttng(1) to get notified when the +NOTE: This is used by man:lttng(1) to get notified when the session daemon is ready to accept commands. When building a third party tool on liblttng-ctl, this option can be very handy to synchronize the control tool and the session daemon. @@ -268,22 +268,22 @@ FILES `$LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces`:: Default output directory of LTTng traces. This can be overridden - with the nloption:--output option of the linklttng:lttng-create(1) + with the nloption:--output option of the man:lttng-create(1) command. `$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions`:: Default location of saved user tracing sessions (see - linklttng:lttng-save(1) and linklttng:lttng-load(1)). + man:lttng-save(1) and man:lttng-load(1)). -`/etc/lttng/sessions`:: ++{system_sessions_dir}+:: System-wide location of saved tracing sessions - (see linklttng:lttng-save(1) and linklttng:lttng-load(1)). + (see man:lttng-save(1) and man:lttng-load(1)). `$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/lttng.conf`:: Default location of the session daemon configuration file (see the option:--config option). -`/etc/lttng/lttng.conf`:: ++{system_lttng_conf}+:: System-wide location of the session daemon configuration file (see the option:--config option). @@ -319,8 +319,8 @@ include::common-footer.txt[] SEE ALSO -------- -linklttng:lttng(1), -linklttng:lttng-relayd(8), -linklttng:lttng-crash(1), -linklttng:lttng-ust(3), -linklttng:babeltrace(1) +man:lttng(1), +man:lttng-relayd(8), +man:lttng-crash(1), +man:lttng-ust(3), +man:babeltrace(1)