From 8971ccdcb6576c7d61823839460a0d20ee4c76e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Roger A. Light" Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 22:46:44 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add note on $SYS on the command line. --- man/mosquitto.8.xml | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/man/mosquitto.8.xml b/man/mosquitto.8.xml index f901aa03..fb87ab70 100644 --- a/man/mosquitto.8.xml +++ b/man/mosquitto.8.xml @@ -87,6 +87,11 @@ only sent once per client on subscription. All other topics are updated every seconds. If is 0, then updates are not sent. + Note that if you are using a command line client to interact with the + $SYS topics and your shell interprets $ as an environment variable, + you need to place the topic in single quotes '$SYS/...' or to + escape the dollar symbol: \$SYS/... otherwise the $SYS will be + treated as an environment variable.