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1README file for directory ./scripts of the NTP Version 4 distribution
2
3This directory contains shell and perl script files for the configuration,
4monitoring and support of NTP installations. See the README and RELNOTES
5files in the parent directory for directions on how to use these files.
6
7calc_tickadj	Calculates "optimal" value for tick given ntp.drift file
8
9freq_adj	Calculates and optionally sets the clock frequency
10		based on ntp.drift .  For FreeBSD systems.
11
12mkver.in	script to create new version numbers for all sources
13
14monitoring      directory containing perl scripts useful for monitoring
15                operations
16
17rc1		start/stop scripts for NTP
18
19rc2		start/stop script for NTP
20
21ntp-close	find public stratum 2 servers that don't respond
22
23ntp-groper	script useful for reaching out and rattling the cages of
24		NTP peers to see if animals are inside the bars
25
26ntp-restart	script useful for killing and restarting the NTP daemon
27
28ntp-wait	Blocks until ntpd is in state 4 (synchronized).
29		Hopefully useful at boot time, to delay the boot sequence
30		until after "ntpd -g" has set the time.
31
32ntpsweep	prints per host given in <file> the NTP stratum level, the
33		clock offset in seconds, the daemon version, the operating
34		system and the processor.
35
36ntpver		What version of the NTP daemon is running?
37
38stats		directory containing awk and shell scripts useful for
39		maintaining statistics summaries of clockstats, loopstats
40		and peerstats files
41
42support         directory containing shell and perl scripts useful for
43                configuration and monitoring of NTP subnets
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