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LTTNG-HELP(1) LTTng Manual LTTNG-HELP(1)

lttng-help - Show the help of an LTTng command

lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] help [COMMAND]

The lttng help command shows the help of:

With the COMMAND argument

The lttng COMMAND command.

Without the COMMAND argument

The lttng(1) command itself.

The help command is equivalent to:

lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] [COMMAND] --help

The help command attempts to launch /usr/bin/man to view this the manual page of the command. Override the manual pager path with the LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH environment variable.

See lttng(1) for GENERAL OPTIONS.

-h, --help

Show help.

This option attempts to launch /usr/bin/man to view this manual page. Override the manual pager path with the LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH environment variable.

--list-options

List available command options and quit.

0

Success

1

Command error

2

Undefined command

3

Fatal error

4

Command warning (something went wrong during the command)

LTTNG_ABORT_ON_ERROR

Set to 1 to abort the process after the first error is encountered.

LTTNG_HOME

Path to the LTTng home directory.

Defaults to $HOME.

Useful when the Unix user running the commands has a non-writable home directory.

LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH

Absolute path to the manual pager to use to read the LTTng command-line help (with lttng-help(1) or with the --help option) instead of /usr/bin/man.

LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH

Path to the directory containing the session.xsd recording session configuration XML schema.

LTTNG_SESSIOND_PATH

Absolute path to the LTTng session daemon binary (see lttng-sessiond(8)) to spawn from the lttng-create(1) command.

The --sessiond-path general option overrides this environment variable.

$LTTNG_HOME/.lttngrc

Unix user’s LTTng runtime configuration.

This is where LTTng stores the name of the Unix user’s current recording session between executions of lttng(1). lttng-create(1) and lttng-set-session(1) set the current recording session.

$LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces

Default output directory of LTTng traces in local and snapshot modes.

Override this path with the --output option of the lttng-create(1) command.

$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng

Unix user’s LTTng runtime and configuration directory.

$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions

Default directory containing the Unix user’s saved recording session configurations (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).

/etc/lttng/sessions

Directory containing the system-wide saved recording session configurations (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).

Note

$LTTNG_HOME defaults to the value of the HOME environment variable.

•LTTng project website <https://lttng.org>

•LTTng documentation <https://lttng.org/docs>

•LTTng bug tracker <https://bugs.lttng.org>

•Git repositories <https://git.lttng.org>

•GitHub organization <https://github.com/lttng>

•Continuous integration <https://ci.lttng.org/>

•Mailing list <https://lists.lttng.org/> for support and development: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org

•IRC channel <irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng>: #lttng on irc.oftc.net

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.

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.

lttng(1)

21 April 2021 LTTng 2.13.9