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DESCRIPTION

• 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:

? [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 { on | off }

Enable or disable the tracing of incoming messages to timed(8) in the file /var/log/timed.log.

election host

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.