collectd is a daemon that receives system statistics and makes them available
in a number of ways. The main daemon itself doesn't have any real functionality
-appart from loading, querying and submitting to plugins. For a description of
+apart from loading, querying and submitting to plugins. For a description of
available plugins please see L</PLUGINS> below.
=head1 OPTIONS
change B<collectd>'s behavior. The path may be relative to the current working
directory.
+=item B<-t>
+
+Test the configuration only. The program immediately exits after parsing the
+config file. A return code not equal to zero indicates an error.
+
=item B<-P> I<E<lt>pid-fileE<gt>>
Specify an alternative pid file. This overwrites any settings in the config
=head1 PLUGINS
-As noted above, the real power of collectd lies within it's plugins. There are
-two big groups of plugins, B<input> and B<output> plugins:
+As noted above, the real power of collectd lies within it's plugins. A
+(hopefully complete) list of plugins and short descriptions can be found in the
+F<README> file that is distributed with the sourcecode. If you're using a
+package it's a good bet to search somewhere near F</usr/share/doc/collectd>.
+
+There are two big groups of plugins, B<input> and B<output> plugins:
=over 4