From 4fa8dc1ee4efdf66813dc09043ded0a95b653bb2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Philippe Proulx Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 18:00:16 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] controlling-tracing: minor fixes Signed-off-by: Philippe Proulx --- .../using-lttng/controlling-tracing/intro.md | 19 ++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/contents/using-lttng/controlling-tracing/intro.md b/contents/using-lttng/controlling-tracing/intro.md index a8f4d71..7d42c52 100644 --- a/contents/using-lttng/controlling-tracing/intro.md +++ b/contents/using-lttng/controlling-tracing/intro.md @@ -5,16 +5,17 @@ id: controlling-tracing Once you're in possession of a software that is properly [instrumented](#doc-instrumenting) for LTTng tracing, be it thanks to the built-in LTTng probes for the Linux kernel, a custom user -application or a custom Linux kernel, all that is left is actually -tracing it. As a user, you control LTTng tracing using a single command -line interface: the `lttng` tool. This tool uses `liblttng-ctl` behind -the scene to connect to and communicate with session daemons. LTTng -session daemons may either be started manually (`lttng-sessiond`) or -automatically by the `lttng` command when needed. Trace data may -be forwarded to the network and used elsewhere using an LTTng relay -daemon (`lttng-relayd`). +application, or a custom Linux kernel, all that is left is actually +tracing it. -The man pages of `lttng`, `lttng-sessiond` and `lttng-relayd` are pretty +You control LTTng tracing using a single command +line tool: `lttng`. LTTng [session daemons](#doc-lttng-sessiond) may +either be started manually (`lttng-sessiond`) or automatically by the +`lttng` command when a sessions is created. Trace data may be forwarded +to the network and used elsewhere using an LTTng +[relay daemon](#doc-lttng-relayd) (`lttng-relayd`). + +The man pages of `lttng`, `lttng-sessiond`, and `lttng-relayd` are pretty complete, thus this section is not an online copy of the latter (we leave this contents for the [Online LTTng man pages](#doc-online-lttng-manpages) section). -- 2.34.1