the desired portnumber into a file named "portnum" (i.e. $BASEDIR/portnum),
and the next time the gatherer is started, it will start listening on the
given port. The portnum file is actually a "strports specification string",
-as described in docs/configuration.txt .
+as described in `docs/configuration.rst <configuration.rst>`_.
Once running, the stats gatherer will create a standard python "pickle" file
in $BASEDIR/stats.pickle . Once a minute, the gatherer will pull stats