1.\" $NetBSD: timedc.8,v 1.9 2002/02/02 02:02:44 wiz 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. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 15.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 16.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 17.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 18.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 19.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 20.\" without specific prior written permission. 21.\" 22.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 23.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 24.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 25.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 26.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 27.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 28.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 29.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 30.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 31.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 32.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 33.\" 34.\" @(#)timedc.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 35.\" 36.Dd June 6, 1993 37.Dt TIMEDC 8 38.Os 39.ad 40.Sh NAME 41.Nm timedc 42.Nd timed control program 43.Sh SYNOPSIS 44.Nm 45.Oo Ar command\ \& 46.Op Ar argument ... 47.Oc 48.Sh DESCRIPTION 49.Nm 50is used to control the operation of the 51.Xr timed 8 52program. 53It may be used to: 54.Bl -bullet 55.It 56Measure the differences between machines' clocks, 57.It 58Find the location where the master time server is running, 59.It 60Enable or disable tracing of messages received by 61.Xr timed 8 , 62and 63.It 64Perform various debugging actions. 65.El 66.Pp 67Without any arguments, 68.Nm 69will prompt for commands from the standard input. 70If arguments are supplied, 71.Nm 72interprets the first argument as a command and the remaining 73arguments as parameters to the command. The standard input 74may be redirected causing 75.Nm 76to read commands from a file. 77Commands may be abbreviated; 78recognized commands are: 79.Pp 80.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact 81.It Ic \&? Op Ar command ... 82.Pp 83.It Ic help Op Ar command ... 84Print a short description of each command specified in the argument list, 85or, if no arguments are given, a list of the recognized commands. 86.Pp 87.It Ic clockdiff Ar host ... 88Compute the differences between the clock of the host machine 89and the clocks of the machines given as arguments. 90.Pp 91.It Ic msite Op Ar host ... 92Show the master time server for specified host(s). 93.Pp 94.It Xo 95.Ic trace 96.Li \&{ Ar on Li \&| 97.Ar off \&} 98.Xc 99Enable or disable the tracing of incoming messages to 100.Xr timed 8 101in the file 102.Pa /var/log/timed.log . 103.Pp 104.It Ic election Ar host 105Asks the daemon 106on the target host to reset its 107.Dq election 108timers and to ensure that a time master has been elected. 109.Pp 110.It Ic quit 111Exit from timedc. 112.El 113.Pp 114Other commands may be included for use in testing and debugging 115.Xr timed 8 ; 116the help command and 117the program source may be consulted for details. 118.Sh FILES 119.Bl -tag -width /var/log/timed.masterlog -compact 120.It Pa /var/log/timed.log 121tracing file for timed 122.It Pa /var/log/timed.masterlog 123log file for master timed 124.El 125.Sh DIAGNOSTICS 126.Bl -tag -width Ds -compact 127.It ?Ambiguous command 128abbreviation matches more than one command 129.It ?Invalid command 130no match found 131.It ?Privileged command 132command can be executed by root only 133.El 134.Sh SEE ALSO 135.Xr date 1 , 136.Xr adjtime 2 , 137.Xr icmp 4 , 138.Xr timed 8 139.Rs 140.%T "TSP: The Time Synchronization Protocol for UNIX 4.3BSD" 141.%A R. Gusella 142.%A S. Zatti 143.Re 144.Sh HISTORY 145The 146.Nm 147command appeared in 148.Bx 4.3 . 149