This document describes the use of the NTP Project's plot_summary
program.
This document applies to version 4.2.8p3 of plot_summary
.
This section was generated by AutoGen,
using the agtexi-cmd
template and the option descriptions for the plot_summary
program.
This is the automatically generated usage text for plot_summary.
The text printed is the same whether selected with the help
option
(--help) or the more-help
option (--more-help). more-help
will print
the usage text by passing it through a pager program.
more-help
is disabled on platforms without a working
fork(2)
function. The PAGER
environment variable is
used to select the program, defaulting to more. Both will exit
with a status code of 0.
plot_summary - plot statistics generated by summary script - Ver. 4.2.8p3 USAGE: plot_summary [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]... --directory=str Where the summary files are --identifier=str Origin of the data --offset-limit=float Limit of absolute offset --peer=str Peers to generate plots for - may appear multiple times --plot-term=str Gnuplot terminal --output-file=str Output file --dont-wait Don't wait for keystroke between plots -?, --help Display usage information and exit --more-help Pass the extended usage text through a pager Options are specified by doubled hyphens and their name or by a single hyphen and the flag character.
This is the “where the summary files are” option.
This option takes a string argument.
The directory where the plot_summary
will search for the
*_summary files generated by summary
script.
This is the “origin of the data” option. This option takes a string argument. Where does the plotted data come from, default to string "host" plus current hostname
This is the “peers to generate plots for” option. This option takes a string argument.
This option has some usage constraints. It:
By default the peer_summary plots are not generated. Use this option to specify list of peers if you want to generate plots for them.
This is the “gnuplot terminal” option.
This option takes a string argument.
This is string is passed directly to the gnuplot set terminal
command. Default is x11
if DISPLAY
is set and
dumb
is it's not'. See output from -e "set
terminal") for the list of avalaible options.
This is the “output file” option.
This option takes a str argument.
Output file for gnuplot
, default to stdout.
One of the following exit values will be returned: