<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>lxc-monitor</command>
- <arg choice="req">-n <replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
+ <arg choice="opt">-n <replaceable>name</replaceable></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<title>Description</title>
<para>
- <command>lxc-monitor</command> monitors the state of the
- specified containers. The <replaceable>name</replaceable> can be
- a regular expression, conforming with posix2, so it is possible
- to monitor all the containers, several of them or just one.
+ <command>lxc-monitor</command> monitors the state of containers. The
+ <replaceable>name</replaceable> argument may be used to specify
+ which containers to monitor. It is a regular expression, conforming
+ with posix2, so it is possible to monitor all the containers,
+ several of them or just one. If not specified,
+ <replaceable>name</replaceable> will default to '.*' which will
+ monitor all containers in <command>lxcpath</command>.
</para>
<para>
static struct lxc_arguments my_args = {
.progname = "lxc-monitor",
.help = "\
---name=NAME\n\
+[--name=NAME]\n\
\n\
lxc-monitor monitors the state of the NAME container\n\
\n\
Options :\n\
-n, --name=NAME NAME for name of the container\n\
NAME may be a regular expression",
+ .name = ".*",
.options = my_longopts,
.parser = NULL,
.checker = NULL,