pmpost(1)

1PMPOST(1)                   General Commands Manual                  PMPOST(1)
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NAME

6       pmpost - append messages to the Performance Co-Pilot notice board
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SYNOPSIS

9       $PCP_BINADM_DIR/pmpost message
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DESCRIPTION

12       pmpost  will  append the text message to the end of the Performance Co-
13       Pilot (PCP) notice board file ($PCP_LOG_DIR/NOTICES) in an atomic  man‐
14       ner  that guards against corruption of the notice board file by concur‐
15       rent invocations of pmpost.
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17       The PCP notice board is intended to be a persistent store and  clearing
18       house  for  important messages relating to the operation of the PCP and
19       the notification of performance alerts from pmie(1) when other  notifi‐
20       cation options are either unavailable or unsuitable.
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22       Before  being  written,  messages are prefixed by the current time, and
23       when the current day is different to the last  time  the  notice  board
24       file was written, pmpost will prepend the message with the full date.
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26       If the notice board file does not exist, pmpost will create it.  pmpost
27       would usually run from long-running PCP  daemons  executing  under  the
28       (typically  unprivileged)  $PCP_USER and $PCP_GROUP accounts.  The file
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FILES

32       $PCP_LOG_DIR/NOTICES
33                 the PCP notice board file
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PCP ENVIRONMENT

36       The file /etc/pcp.conf contains the local values for PCP_ variables.
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UNIX SEE ALSO

39       logger(1).
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WINDOWS SEE ALSO

42       pcp-eventlog(1).
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