Manual Pages  — TIMEDC

The timedc utility 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:

amp;? [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 amp;{ onamp;| off amp;} Enable or disable the tracing of incoming messages to timed(8) in the file /var/log/timed.log.
election host1 [host2 ...]
	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.

date(1), adjtime(2), icmp(4), timed(8)

R. Gusella, S. Zatti, TSP: The Time Synchronization Protocol for UNIX 4.3BSD,