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LTTNG-DESTROY(1) LTTng Manual LTTNG-DESTROY(1)
lttng-destroy - Destroy an LTTng tracing session
lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] destroy [--no-wait] [--all | SESSION]
The lttng destroy command destroys one or more tracing sessions.
If no options are specified, the current tracing session is
destroyed (see lttng-create(1) for more information about the
current tracing session).
If SESSION is specified, the existing tracing session named
SESSION is destroyed. lttng list outputs all the existing tracing
sessions (see lttng-list(1)).
If the --all option is used, all the tracing sessions, as listed
in the output of lttng list, are destroyed.
Destroying a tracing session stops any tracing running within the
latter. By default, the implicit lttng-stop(1) command invoked by
the lttng destroy command ensures that the tracing session’s trace
data is valid before returning. With the --no-wait option, the
lttng-stop(1) command finishes immediately, hence a local trace
might not be valid when the command is done. In this case, there
is no way to know when the trace becomes valid.
Destroying a tracing session does not destroy the recorded trace
data, if any; it frees resources acquired by the session daemon
and tracer side, making sure to flush all trace data.
If at least one rotation occurred during the chosen tracing
session’s lifetime (see lttng-rotate(1) and
lttng-enable-rotation(1)), and without the --no-wait option, all
the tracing session’s output directory’s subdirectories are
considered trace chunk archives once the command returns: it is
safe to read them, modify them, move them, or remove them.
General options are described in lttng(1).
-a, --all
Destroy all tracing sessions.
-n, --no-wait
Do not ensure that the chosen tracing session’s trace data is
valid before returning to the prompt.
Program information
-h, --help
Show command help.
This option, like lttng-help(1), attempts to launch
/usr/bin/man to view the command’s man page. The path to the
man pager can be overridden by the LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
environment variable.
--list-options
List available command options.
LTTNG_ABORT_ON_ERROR
Set to 1 to abort the process after the first error is
encountered.
LTTNG_HOME
Overrides the $HOME environment variable. Useful when the user
running the commands has a non-writable home directory.
LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
Absolute path to the man pager to use for viewing help
information about LTTng commands (using lttng-help(1) or lttng
COMMAND --help).
LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH
Path in which the session.xsd session configuration XML schema
may be found.
LTTNG_SESSIOND_PATH
Full session daemon binary path.
The --sessiond-path option has precedence over this
environment variable.
Note that the lttng-create(1) command can spawn an LTTng session
daemon automatically if none is running. See lttng-sessiond(8) for
the environment variables influencing the execution of the session
daemon.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttngrc
User LTTng runtime configuration.
This is where the per-user current tracing session is stored
between executions of lttng(1). The current tracing session
can be set with lttng-set-session(1). See lttng-create(1) for
more information about tracing sessions.
$LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces
Default output directory of LTTng traces. This can be
overridden with the --output option of the lttng-create(1)
command.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng
User LTTng runtime and configuration directory.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions
Default location of saved user tracing sessions (see
lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).
/usr/local/etc/lttng/sessions
System-wide location of saved tracing sessions (see
lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).
Note
$LTTNG_HOME defaults to $HOME when not explicitly set.
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Success
1
Command error
2
Undefined command
3
Fatal error
4
Command warning (something went wrong during the command)
If you encounter any issue or usability problem, please report it
on the LTTng bug tracker <https://bugs.lttng.org/projects/lttng-
tools>.
• LTTng project website <https://lttng.org>
• LTTng documentation <https://lttng.org/docs>
• Git repositories <http://git.lttng.org>
• GitHub organization <http://github.com/lttng>
• Continuous integration <http://ci.lttng.org/>
• Mailing list <http://lists.lttng.org> for support and
development: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org
• IRC channel <irc://irc.oftc.net/lttng>: #lttng on irc.oftc.net
This program is part of the LTTng-tools project.
LTTng-tools is distributed under the GNU General Public License
version 2 <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-
licenses/gpl-2.0.en.html>. See the LICENSE
<https://github.com/lttng/lttng-tools/blob/master/LICENSE> file
for details.
Special thanks to Michel Dagenais and the DORSAL laboratory
<http://www.dorsal.polymtl.ca/> at École Polytechnique de Montréal
for the LTTng journey.
Also thanks to the Ericsson teams working on tracing which helped
us greatly with detailed bug reports and unusual test cases.
LTTng-tools was originally written by Mathieu Desnoyers, Julien
Desfossez, and David Goulet. More people have since contributed to
it.
LTTng-tools is currently maintained by Jérémie Galarneau
<mailto:jeremie.galarneau@efficios.com>.
lttng-create(1), lttng-set-session(1), lttng(1)
This page is part of the LTTng-Tools ( LTTng tools) project.
Information about the project can be found at ⟨http://lttng.org/⟩.
It is not known how to report bugs for this man page; if you know,
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⟨git://git.lttng.org/lttng-tools.git⟩ on 2019-11-19. (At that
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LTTng 2.12.0-pre 10/29/2018 LTTNG-DESTROY(1)
Pages that refer to this page: lttng(1), lttng-create(1), lttng-set-session(1), lttng-stop(1)
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