From: Florian Forster <octo@leeloo.lan.home.verplant.org>
Date: Sat, 20 Dec 2008 10:20:31 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: types.db(5): Explain in more detail how custom types should be added.
X-Git-Tag: collectd-4.4.5~3
X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=49ebc1acf0525d8e328b5e01622f34e65a2cf437;p=collectd.git

types.db(5): Explain in more detail how custom types should be added.

Apparently there was quite some confusion over this.
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diff --git a/src/types.db.pod b/src/types.db.pod
index f0a49f6b..ef1550ca 100644
--- a/src/types.db.pod
+++ b/src/types.db.pod
@@ -29,9 +29,19 @@ happen. See L<rrdcreate(1)> for more details.
 =head1 FILES
 
 The location of the types.db file is defined by the B<TypesDB> configuration
-option (see L<collectd.conf(5)>). If you want to specify custom data-sets, you
-should do so by using a custom file specified as an additional argument to the
-B<TypesDB> option.
+option (see L<collectd.conf(5)>).
+
+=head1 CUSTOM TYPES
+
+If you want to specify custom types, you should do so by specifying a custom
+file in addition to the default one (see L<FILES>) above. You can do that by
+having multiple B<TypesDB> statements in your configuration file of by
+specifying more than one file in one line.
+
+For example:
+
+ TypesDB "/opt/collectd/share/collectd/types.db"
+ TypesDB "/opt/collectd/etc/types.db.custom"
 
 =head1 SEE ALSO