-The `lttng clear` command clears one or more tracing sessions, that is,
-it deletes the contents of their tracing buffers and of all their local
-and streamed trace data.
+The `lttng clear` command clears one or more recording sessions, that
+is, it deletes the contents of their recording buffers and of all their
+local and streamed trace data.
- *All* the tracing sessions of the connected session daemon for your
- Unix user, or for all users if your Unix user is `root`, as listed
- in the output of `lttng list` (see man:lttng-list(1)).
+ *All* the recording sessions of the connected session daemon for
+ your Unix user, or for all users if your Unix user is `root`, as
+ listed in the output of `lttng list` (see man:lttng-list(1)).
+
See the ``Session daemon connection'' section of man:lttng(1) to learn
how a user application connects to a session daemon.
+
See the ``Session daemon connection'' section of man:lttng(1) to learn
how a user application connects to a session daemon.
-For a given tracing session, if at least one rotation occurred (see
-man:lttng-concepts(7)), the `clear` command only clears its tracing
+For a given recording session, if at least one rotation occurred (see
+man:lttng-concepts(7)), the `clear` command only clears its recording
buffers and its current trace chunk, :not: its archived trace chunks.
NOTE: The nloption:--disallow-clear option and the
`LTTNG_RELAYD_DISALLOW_CLEAR` environment variable of
man:lttng-relayd(8) can disable remote clearing operations. If LTTng
buffers and its current trace chunk, :not: its archived trace chunks.
NOTE: The nloption:--disallow-clear option and the
`LTTNG_RELAYD_DISALLOW_CLEAR` environment variable of
man:lttng-relayd(8) can disable remote clearing operations. If LTTng
-sends tracing data over the network for the selected tracing session(s)
-to an LTTng relay daemon configured as such, the `clear` command fails.
+sends recording data over the network for the selected recording
+session(s) to an LTTng relay daemon configured as such, the `clear`
+command fails.
- man:lttng-list(1), instead of the current tracing session or the
- tracing session named 'SESSION'.
+ man:lttng-list(1), instead of the current recording session or the
+ recording session named 'SESSION'.