From: Sebastian Harl Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2008 09:35:21 +0000 (+0200) Subject: collectd.conf(5): Documented the support for wrapping lines. X-Git-Tag: collectd-4.5.0~93^2~2 X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9b29ccbcd6fb67bcb0bf79878a43b38a79094e00;p=collectd.git collectd.conf(5): Documented the support for wrapping lines. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Harl Signed-off-by: Florian Forster --- diff --git a/src/collectd.conf.pod b/src/collectd.conf.pod index faff2ffe..f20f42e3 100644 --- a/src/collectd.conf.pod +++ b/src/collectd.conf.pod @@ -30,7 +30,11 @@ section-start or -end. Empty lines and everything after the hash-symbol `#' is ignored. Values are either string, enclosed in double-quotes, (floating-point-)numbers or a boolean expression, i.Ee. either B or B. String containing of only alphanumeric characters and underscores do -not need to be quoted. +not need to be quoted. Lines may be wrapped by using `\' as the last character +before the newline. This allows long lines to be split into multiple lines. +Quoted strings may be wrapped as well. However, those are treated special in +that whitespace at the beginning of the following lines will be ignored, which +allows for nicely indenting the wrapped lines. The configuration is read and processed in order, i.Ee. from top to bottom. So the plugins are loaded in the order listed in this config file. It