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| author | Tobi Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch> | 2008-08-27 18:41:01 +0200 |
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| committer | Tobi Oetiker <tobi@oetiker.ch> | 2008-08-27 18:41:01 +0200 |
| commit | 388f957a3615c5b52ebf52e16462bf693700a0b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 1364501980ed3a66c446684984157118f06f606a | |
| parent | a325ac6b477255914f016da340e1bfe1ae833fd0 (diff) | |
| download | smokeping-388f957a3615c5b52ebf52e16462bf693700a0b7.tar.gz smokeping-388f957a3615c5b52ebf52e16462bf693700a0b7.tar.xz | |
fixed install instructions
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/smokeping_install.pod | 13 |
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diff --git a/doc/smokeping_install.pod b/doc/smokeping_install.pod index 932564d..fd507f7 100644 --- a/doc/smokeping_install.pod +++ b/doc/smokeping_install.pod @@ -203,9 +203,18 @@ If you are going to use the B<DYNAMIC> IP support, customize the contents of thi =back -Now you are ready to start smokeping: +=head2 Starting the Smokeping Daemon - ./bin/smokeping +With all the scaffolding in place, you can now launch the smokeping daemon and send +have it gather data for you. First you may want to run it in debug mode to see what +it is doing + + ./bin/smokeping --debug + +once all is well, start it up as a deamon. I would recomend to enable the logfile +option so that you can see if it runs into trouble. + + ./bin/smokeping --logfile=smoke.log Once the system works, you may want to put a SmokePing startup script into your F</etc/init.d> tree. Check out L<smokeping> for further information. |