1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> 2<html> 3 <head> 4 <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1"> 5 <meta name="generator" content="HTML Tidy, see www.w3.org"> 6 <title>ntp-wait - waits until ntpd is in synchronized state</title> 7 <link href="scripts/style.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"> 8 </head> 9 <body> 10 <h3><tt>ntp-wait</tt> - waits until ntpd is in synchronized state</h3> 11<p>Last update: 12 <!-- #BeginDate format:En2m -->12-Jul-2011 22:03<!-- #EndDate --> 13 UTC</p> 14 <hr> 15 <h4>Synopsis</h4> 16 <p><tt>ntp-wait [ -v ] [ -n <i>tries</i> ] [ -s <i>seconds</i> ]</tt></p> 17 <h4>Description</h4> 18 <p>The <tt>ntp-wait</tt> program blocks until ntpd is in synchronized state. 19 This can be useful at boot time, to delay the boot sequence 20 until after "ntpd -g" has set the time. 21 <h4>Command Line Options</h4> 22 <dl> 23 <dt><tt>-n <i>tries</i></tt> 24 <dd>Number of tries before giving up. The default is 1000. 25 <dt><tt>-s <i>seconds</i></tt> 26 <dd>Seconds to sleep between tries. The default is 6 seconds. 27 <dt><tt>-v</tt> 28 <dd>Be verbose. 29 </dl> 30 <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="scripts/footer.txt"></script> 31 </body> 32 33</html> 34