From a60abf6a77b00e9293ca3c1bed81e3fe67521d49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Czerwonk Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 21:07:13 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 7fdfb6b..b796d42 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ Metric exporter for bird routing daemon to use with Prometheus ## Remarks -Since bird_exporter calls the bird client binary, bird has to be installed on the same mashine as bird_exporter. +Since bird_exporter uses the bird unix sockets, bird has to be installed on the same mashine as bird_exporter. Also the user executing bird_exporter must have permission to access the bird socket files. ### Bird configuration To get meaningful uptime information bird has to be configured this way: @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ In version 0.7.1 the default port changed to 9324 since port 9200 is the default ## Install ``` -go get github.com/czerwonk/bird_exporter +go get -u github.com/czerwonk/bird_exporter ``` ## Features