pcp.env(4)

pcp.env4

Script to set performance co-pilot run-time environment variables

Usage

/etc/pcp.env

Overview

The pcp.env script is sourced by assorted Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) scripts and utilities to define the PCP operating environment variables. The conjugate for executable programs using the PCP libraries is the __pmGetConfig(3) function.

Typical usage of pcp.env in a script is as follows :

#! /bin/sh

# source the PCP environment variables
. /etc/pcp.env
rest of script ...

The full syntax and semantics of the pcp.conf file and the __pmGetConfig function are described in their respective reference pages.

Environment

The PCP_CONF environment variable specifies an alternative path to the pcp.conf file.

Releases

2 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0

From pcp 3.3.3-squeeze3 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.