lttng-metadata(1) — Linux manual page
LTTNG-METADATA(1) LTTng Manual LTTNG-METADATA(1)
NAME
lttng-metadata - Manage an LTTng tracing session's metadata
generation
SYNOPSIS
lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] metadata regenerate [--session=SESSION]
DESCRIPTION
Warning
This command is deprecated; it has been replaced by lttng
regenerate metadata (see lttng-regenerate(1)).
OPTIONS
General options are described in lttng(1).
-s SESSION, --session=SESSION
Manage the metadata generation of the tracing session named
SESSION instead of the current tracing session.
Program information
-h, --help
Show command help.
This option, like lttng-help(1), attempts to launch
/usr/bin/man to view the command’s man page. The path to the
man pager can be overridden by the LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
environment variable.
--list-options
List available command options.
LIMITATIONS
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 lttng-enable-channel(1) for more information about buffering
schemes and lttng-create(1) for more information about the
different tracing session modes.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
LTTNG_ABORT_ON_ERROR
Set to 1 to abort the process after the first error is
encountered.
LTTNG_HOME
Overrides the $HOME environment variable. Useful when the
user running the commands has a non-writable home directory.
LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
Absolute path to the man pager to use for viewing help
information about LTTng commands (using lttng-help(1) or
lttng COMMAND --help).
LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH
Path in which the session.xsd session configuration XML
schema may be found.
LTTNG_SESSIOND_PATH
Full session daemon binary path.
The --sessiond-path option has precedence over this
environment variable.
Note that the lttng-create(1) command can spawn an LTTng session
daemon automatically if none is running. See lttng-sessiond(8)
for the environment variables influencing the execution of the
session daemon.
FILES
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttngrc
User LTTng runtime configuration.
This is where the per-user current tracing session is stored
between executions of lttng(1). The current tracing session
can be set with lttng-set-session(1). See lttng-create(1) for
more information about tracing sessions.
$LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces
Default output directory of LTTng traces. This can be
overridden with the --output option of the lttng-create(1)
command.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng
User LTTng runtime and configuration directory.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions
Default location of saved user tracing sessions (see
lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).
/usr/local/etc/lttng/sessions
System-wide location of saved tracing sessions (see
lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).
Note
$LTTNG_HOME defaults to $HOME when not explicitly set.
EXIT STATUS
0
Success
1
Command error
2
Undefined command
3
Fatal error
4
Command warning (something went wrong during the command)
BUGS
If you encounter any issue or usability problem, please report it
on the LTTng bug tracker <https://bugs.lttng.org/projects/lttng-
tools>.
RESOURCES
• LTTng project website <https://lttng.org>
• LTTng documentation <https://lttng.org/docs>
• Git repositories <http://git.lttng.org>
• GitHub organization <http://github.com/lttng>
• Continuous integration <http://ci.lttng.org/>
• Mailing list <http://lists.lttng.org> for support and
development: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org
• IRC channel <irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng>: #lttng on
irc.oftc.net
COPYRIGHTS
This program is part of the LTTng-tools project.
LTTng-tools is distributed under the GNU General Public License
version 2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-
licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html>. See the LICENSE
<https://github.com/lttng/lttng-tools/blob/master/LICENSE> file
for details.
THANKS
Special thanks to Michel Dagenais and the DORSAL laboratory
<http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/> at École Polytechnique de
Montréal for the LTTng journey.
Also thanks to the Ericsson teams working on tracing which helped
us greatly with detailed bug reports and unusual test cases.
AUTHORS
LTTng-tools was originally written by Mathieu Desnoyers, Julien
Desfossez, and David Goulet. More people have since contributed
to it.
LTTng-tools is currently maintained by Jérémie Galarneau
<mailto:jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>.
SEE ALSO
lttng(1)
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