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@@ -5,15 +5,19 @@ Monitoring facility for the KM3NeT neutrino detector.
 ## Usage
 
 Check out the configure options with
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     ./configure --help
 
 then configure the ``Makefile`` with
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     ./configure
 
 and run
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     make start
 
 to start the monitoring. If you want to stop it:
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     make stop
 
 easy.