timedc(1Mtcp)

timedc -- timed control program

Synopsis

timedc [ command [ argument ... ] ]

Description

timedc controls the operation of the timed 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
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.
election host: This command is used for testing only. It causes host's election timer to expire immediately.
msite { host ... }: Show the master time server for the specified hosts, or the local host if host is not specified.
trace { on | off }: Enable or disable the tracing of incoming messages to timed in the file /usr/adm/timed.log.
quit: Exit from timedc.

Files

/usr/adm/timed.log: tracing file for timed
/usr/adm/timed.masterlog: log file for master timed

Diagnostics

?Ambiguous command: abbreviation matches more than one command
?Invalid command: no match found
?Privileged command: command can be executed by root only

References

adjtime(2), date(1), icmp(7tcp), netdate(1Mtcp), timed(1Mtcp)