1.\" $NetBSD: timedc.8,v 1.12 2007/02/04 21:17:01 cbiere Exp $ 2.\" 3.\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991 Regents of the University of California. 4.\" All rights reserved. 5.\" 6.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 7.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 8.\" are met: 9.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 10.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 11.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 12.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 13.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 14.\" 3. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 15.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 16.\" without specific prior written permission. 17.\" 18.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 19.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 20.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 21.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 22.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 23.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 24.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 25.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 26.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 27.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 28.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 29.\" 30.\" @(#)timedc.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 31.\" 32.Dd February 2, 2007 33.Dt TIMEDC 8 34.Os 35.ad 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm timedc 38.Nd timed control program 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.Nm 41.Op Ar command Op Ar argument ... 42.Sh DESCRIPTION 43.Nm 44is used to control the operation of the 45.Xr timed 8 46program. 47It may be used to: 48.Bl -bullet 49.It 50Measure the differences between machines' clocks, 51.It 52Find the location where the master time server is running, 53.It 54Enable or disable tracing of messages received by 55.Xr timed 8 , 56and 57.It 58Perform various debugging actions. 59.El 60.Pp 61Without any arguments, 62.Nm 63will prompt for commands from the standard input. 64If arguments are supplied, 65.Nm 66interprets the first argument as a command and the remaining 67arguments as parameters to the command. The standard input 68may be redirected causing 69.Nm 70to read commands from a file. 71Commands may be abbreviated; 72recognized commands are: 73.Pp 74.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact 75.It Ic \&? Op Ar command ... 76.Pp 77.It Ic help Op Ar command ... 78Print a short description of each command specified in the argument list, 79or, if no arguments are given, a list of the recognized commands. 80.Pp 81.It Ic clockdiff Ar host ... 82Compute the differences between the clock of the host machine 83and the clocks of the machines given as arguments. 84.Pp 85.It Ic msite Op Ar host ... 86Show the master time server for specified host(s). 87.Pp 88.It Xo 89.Ic trace 90.Li \&{ Ar on Li \&| 91.Ar off \&} 92.Xc 93Enable or disable the tracing of incoming messages to 94.Xr timed 8 95in the file 96.Pa /var/log/timed.log . 97.Pp 98.It Ic election Ar host 99Asks the daemon 100on the target host to reset its 101.Dq election 102timers and to ensure that a time master has been elected. 103.Pp 104.It Ic quit 105Exit from timedc. 106.El 107.Pp 108Other commands may be included for use in testing and debugging 109.Xr timed 8 ; 110the help command and 111the program source may be consulted for details. 112.Sh FILES 113.Bl -tag -width /var/log/timed.masterlog -compact 114.It Pa /var/log/timed.log 115tracing file for timed 116.It Pa /var/log/timed.masterlog 117log file for master timed 118.El 119.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 120.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact 121.It ?Ambiguous command 122abbreviation matches more than one command 123.It ?Invalid command 124no match found 125.El 126.Sh SEE ALSO 127.Xr date 1 , 128.Xr adjtime 2 , 129.Xr icmp 4 , 130.Xr timed 8 131.Rs 132.%T "TSP: The Time Synchronization Protocol for UNIX 4.3BSD" 133.%A R. Gusella 134.%A S. Zatti 135.Re 136.Sh HISTORY 137The 138.Nm 139command appeared in 140.Bx 4.3 . 141