NAME

timedc − Controls the timed daemon

SYNOPSIS

timedc [command argument...]

DESCRIPTION

The timedc program (timed control program) controls the operation of the timed daemon. The timedc program can be used to perform the following tasks:

       •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 operands, timedc prompts for commands from the standard input. If operands are supplied, timedc interprets the first operand as a command and the remaining operands as arguments to that command.  The standard input may be redirected, causing timedc to read operands from a file. 

The timedc commands can be abbreviated.  The following is a list of recognized commands:

? [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. This command is only valid for machines whose clocks are within 12 hours of the host machine clock.  Machines whose clocks are more than 12 hours different from the host machine clock will report incorrect time differences.

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

quitExits from timedc. 

msiteReports the hostname of the master timed server that is in use. 

FILES

/usr/sbin/timedc
Full program path

/var/adm/timed.log
Tracing file for the local timed daemon

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

SEE ALSO

Commands: date(1), timed(8)

Functions: adjtime(2)