NAME
timedc —
timed control program
SYNOPSIS
timedc |
[command
[argument ...]] |
DESCRIPTION
timedc is used to control the operation of the
timed(8) program. It may be used
to:
- Measure the differences between machines' clocks,
- Find the location where the master time server is
running,
- Enable or disable tracing of messages received by
timed(8), and
- Perform various debugging actions.
Without any arguments,
timedc will prompt for commands from
the standard input. If arguments are supplied,
timedc
interprets the first argument as a command and the remaining arguments as
parameters to the command. The standard input may be redirected causing
timedc to read commands from a file. Commands may be
abbreviated; recognized commands are:
- ?
[command ...]
-
- help
[command ...]
- Print a short description of each command specified in the
argument list, or, if no arguments are given, a list of the recognized
commands.
- clockdiff
host ...
- Compute the differences between the clock of the host
machine and the clocks of the machines given as arguments.
- msite
[host ...]
- Show the master time server for specified host(s).
- trace
{
on |
off }
- Enable or disable the tracing of incoming messages to
timed(8) in the file
/var/log/timed.log.
- election
host
- Asks the daemon on the target host to reset its
“election” timers and to ensure that a time master has been
elected.
- quit
- Exit from timedc.
Other commands may be included for use in testing and debugging
timed(8); the help command and
the program source may be consulted for details.
FILES
- /var/log/timed.log
- tracing file for timed
- /var/log/timed.masterlog
- log file for master timed
DIAGNOSTICS
- ?Ambiguous command
- abbreviation matches more than one command
- ?Invalid command
- no match found
SEE ALSO
date(1),
adjtime(2),
icmp(4),
timed(8)
R. Gusella and S.
Zatti, TSP: The Time Synchronization Protocol for
UNIX 4.3BSD.
HISTORY
The
timedc command appeared in
4.3BSD.