lttng-version — Get the version of LTTng-tools
lttng [GENERAL OPTIONS] version
The lttng version command shows the version of LTTng-tools, the LTTng
project which provides the lttng(1) command and other tracing
control programs and libraries.
The output of the version command shows:
The major, minor, and patch version numbers.
The Git commit information, if available.
The release name and its description.
The URL of the LTTng project website.
The license information.
See lttng(1) for GENERAL OPTIONS.
-h, --help
Show help.
This option attempts to launch /usr/bin/man to view this manual page.
Override the manual pager path with the LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH environment
variable.
--list-options
List available command options and quit.
Success
Command error
Undefined command
Fatal error
Command warning (something went wrong during the command)
LTTNG_ABORT_ON_ERROR
Set to 1 to abort the process after the first error is
encountered.
LTTNG_HOME
Path to the LTTng home directory.
Defaults to $HOME.
Useful when the Unix user running the commands has a non-writable home directory.
LTTNG_LIST_LEGACY
Set to 1 to use the legacy output format (LTTng 2.14 and
earlier) for the lttng-list(1) command instead of the modern
output format.
Note that the legacy output doesn’t show anything related to features introduced after LTTng 2.14.
LTTNG_MAN_BIN_PATH
Absolute path to the manual pager to use to read the LTTng
command-line help (with lttng-help(1) or with the
--help option) instead of /usr/bin/man.
LTTNG_NO_UTF_8
Set to 1 to not emit multi-byte UTF-8 sequences, even if the
locale claims to support it.
LTTNG_SESSION_CONFIG_XSD_PATH
Path to the directory containing the session.xsd recording session
configuration XML schema.
LTTNG_SESSIOND_PATH
Absolute path to the LTTng session daemon binary (see lttng-sessiond(8)) to spawn from the lttng-create(1) command.
The --sessiond-path general option overrides this environment
variable.
LTTNG_TERM_COLOR
Controls when to emit terminal SGR codes in the output.
The NO_COLOR environment variable overrides this.
One of:
auto (default)
Only emit SGR codes when the standard output is connected to a color-capable terminal.
always
Always emit SGR codes.
never
Never emit SGR codes.
NO_COLOR
If set and not empty, then it’s equivalent to setting
LTTNG_TERM_COLOR to never.
See NO_COLOR to learn more.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttngrc
Unix user’s LTTng runtime configuration.
This is where LTTng stores the name of the Unix user’s current recording session between executions of lttng(1). lttng-create(1) and lttng-set-session(1) set the current recording session.
$LTTNG_HOME/lttng-traces
Default output directory of LTTng traces in local and snapshot modes.
Override this path with the --output option of the
lttng-create(1) command.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng
Unix user’s LTTng runtime and configuration directory.
$LTTNG_HOME/.lttng/sessions
Default directory containing the Unix user’s saved recording session configurations (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).
/etc/lttng/sessions
Directory containing the system-wide saved recording session configurations (see lttng-save(1) and lttng-load(1)).
Note:$LTTNG_HOME defaults to the value of the HOME environment
variable.
Mailing list for support and
development: lttng-dev@lists.lttng.org
IRC channel: #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. See the
LICENSE file
for details.
Special thanks to Michel Dagenais and the DORSAL laboratory 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.