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author | sheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-01-12 14:41:00 +0000 |
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committer | sheldonh <sheldonh@FreeBSD.org> | 2000-01-12 14:41:00 +0000 |
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Add selected manual pages transcribed from the HTML documentation.
Those pages which have not been transcribed are referenced as
gracefully as possible.
There is no perfect section for the ntp_* files, which document
configuration options for the NTP suite, so I'm putting them in
the same section as the pages for the utilities themselves.
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diff --git a/usr.sbin/ntp/doc/ntptrace.8 b/usr.sbin/ntp/doc/ntptrace.8 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b063be4 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/ntp/doc/ntptrace.8 @@ -0,0 +1,73 @@ +.\" +.\" $FreeBSD$ +.\" +.Dd January 6, 2000 +.Dt NTPTRACE 8 +.Os +.Sh NAME +.Nm ntptrace +.Nd trace a chain of NTP servers back to the primary source +.Sh SYNOPSIS +.Nm ntptrace +.Op Fl vdn +.Op Fl r Ar retries +.Op Fl t Ar timeout +.Op Ar server +.Sh DESCRIPTION +.Nm +determines where a given Network Time Protocol (NTP) server gets +its time from, and follows the chain of NTP servers back to their +master time source. +If given no arguments, it starts with +.Dq localhost . +.Pp +Here is an example of the output from +.Nm Ns : +.Bd -literal +% ntptrace +localhost: stratum 4, offset 0.0019529, synch distance 0.144135 +server2ozo.com: stratum 2, offset 0.0124263, synch distance 0.115784 +usndh.edu: stratum 1, offset 0.0019298, synch distance 0.011993, refid 'WWVB' +.Ed +.Pp +On each line, the fields are (left to right): the host name, the +host stratum, +the time offset between that host and the local host +(as measured by +.Nm Ns ; +this is why it is not always zero for +.Dq localhost ) , +the host +synchronization distance , +and (only for stratum-1 servers) the reference clock ID. All times +are given in seconds. +Note that the stratum is the server hop count to the primary source, +while the synchronization distance is the estimated error +relative to the primary source. +These terms are precisely defined in RFC 1305. +.Pp +The following options are available: +.Bl -tag -width indent +.It Fl d +Turn on some debugging output. +.It Fl n +Turn off the printing of host names; instead, host IP addresses +are given. This may be necessary if a nameserver is down. +.It Fl r Ar retries +Set the number of retransmission attempts for each host; the default is 5. +.It Fl t Ar timeout +Set the retransmission timeout (in seconds); the default is 2. +.It Fl v +Print verbose information about the NTP servers. +.El +.Sh SEE ALSO +.Xr xntpd 8 , +.Xr xntpdc 8 +.Rs +.%A D L Mills +.%T Network Time Protocol (Version 3) +.%O RFC1305 +.Re +.Sh BUGS +This program makes no attempt to improve accuracy by doing multiple +samples. |