OSF

NAME

timedc − Controls the timed daemon

SYNOPSIS

timedc [command argument ... ]

The timedc, or timed control program, controls the operation of the timed(8) daemon. 

DESCRIPTION

The timedc program can be used to

       •Measure the differences between machines’ clocks. 

       •Find the location of the master time server. 

       •Enable or disable tracing of messages received by the timed daemon. 

       •Debug. 

Without any arguments, timedc prompts for commands from the standard input.  If arguments are supplied, timedc interprets the first argument as a command and the remaining arguments as arguments to the command.  The standard input may be redirected, causing timedc to read commands from a file. 

SUBCOMMANDS

Subcommands may be abbreviated.  Recognized commands are:

? [command ...]

help [command ...]
Prints a short description of each command specified in the argument list, or, if no arguments are given, prints a list of the recognized commands.

clockdiff host ...
Computes the differences between the clock of the host machine and the clocks of the machines given as arguments.

trace on | off
Enables or disables the tracing of incoming messages to timed in the file /var/adm/timed.log. 

quitExits from timedc. 

msiteReports the hostname of the master timed server in use. 

FILES

/usr/sbin/timedc
Specifies the command path

/var/adm/timed.log
Tracing file for timed

/var/adm/timed.masterlog
Log file for master timed

RELATED INFORMATION

Commands: date(1), timed(8)

Calls: adjtime(3)