doc/man/lttng-destroy.1.txt

   1 lttng-destroy(1)
   2 ================
   3 :revdate: 3 May 2021
   4
   5
   6 NAME
   7 ----
   8 lttng-destroy - Destroy LTTng tracing sessions
   9
  10
  11 SYNOPSIS
  12 --------
  13 [verse]
  14 *lttng* ['linkgenoptions:(GENERAL OPTIONS)'] *destroy* [option:--no-wait] [option:--all | 'SESSION']
  15
  16
  17 DESCRIPTION
  18 -----------
  19 The `lttng destroy` command destroys:
  20
  21 With the 'SESSION' argument::
  22     The tracing session named 'SESSION'.
  23
  24 With the option:--all option::
  25     *All* the tracing sessions of the connected session daemon for your
  26     Unix user, or for all users if your Unix user is `root`, as listed
  27     in the output of `lttng list` (see man:lttng-list(1)).
  28 +
  29 See the ``Session daemon connection'' section of man:lttng(1) to learn
  30 how a user application connects to a session daemon.
  31
  32 Otherwise::
  33     The current tracing session (see man:lttng-concepts(7) to learn more
  34     about the current tracing session).
  35 +
  36 In that case, the current tracing session becomes nonexistent.
  37
  38 See man:lttng-concepts(7) to learn more about tracing sessions.
  39
  40 ``Destroying'' a tracing session means freeing the resources which the
  41 LTTng daemons and tracers acquired for it, also making sure to flush all
  42 the recorded trace data to either the local file system or the connected
  43 LTTng relay daemon (see man:lttng-relayd(8)), depending on the tracing
  44 session mode.
  45
  46 The `destroy` command stops any tracing activity within the selected
  47 tracing session(s). By default, the command runs an implicit
  48 man:lttng-stop(1) command to ensure that the trace data of the tracing
  49 session(s) is valid before it exits. Make the command exit immediately
  50 with the option:--no-wait option. In this case, however, the traces(s)
  51 might not be valid when the command exits, and there's no way to know
  52 when it/they become valid.
  53
  54 If, for a tracing session{nbsp}__TS__ to destroy with the `destroy`
  55 command, the following statements are true:
  56
  57 * You don't specify the option:--no-wait option.
  58
  59 * LTTng archived the current trace chunk (see man:lttng-concepts(7))
  60   of{nbsp}__TS__ at least once during its lifetime.
  61
  62 Then all the subdirectories of the output directory of{nbsp}__TS__
  63 (local or remote) are considered trace chunk archives once the `destroy`
  64 command exits. In other words, it's safe to read them, modify them, move
  65 them, or remove then.
  66
  67
  68 include::common-cmd-options-head.txt[]
  69
  70
  71 option:-a, option:--all::
  72     Destroy all the tracing sessions of your Unix user, or of all users
  73     if your Unix user is `root`, as listed in the output of
  74     man:lttng-list(1), instead of the current tracing session or the
  75     tracing session named 'SESSION'.
  76
  77 option:-n, option:--no-wait::
  78     Do :not: ensure that the trace data of the tracing session(s) to
  79     destroy is valid before exiting.
  80
  81
  82 include::common-cmd-help-options.txt[]
  83
  84
  85 include::common-cmd-footer.txt[]
  86
  87
  88 SEE ALSO
  89 --------
  90 man:lttng(1),
  91 man:lttng-create(1),
  92 man:lttng-list(1),
  93 man:lttng-concepts(7)