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.\" @(#)timedc.8 6.4 (Berkeley) 9/20/88
.TH TIMEDC 8 "September 20, 1988"
timedc \- timed control program
[ command [ argument ... ] ]
is used to control the operation of the \fItimed\fP program.
measure the differences between machines' clocks,
find the location where the master time server is running,
enable or disable tracing of messages received by \fItimed\fP, and
perform various debugging actions.
will prompt for commands from the standard input.
If arguments are supplied,
interprets the first argument as a command and the remaining
arguments as parameters to the command. The standard input
may be redirected causing
to read commands from a file.
Commands may be abbreviated;
Print a short description of each command specified in the argument list,
or, if no arguments are given, a list of the recognized commands.
Compute the differences between the clock of the host machine
and the clocks of the machines given as arguments.
Enable or disable the tracing of incoming messages to \fItimed\fP
in the file /usr/adm/timed.log.
Other commands may be included for use in testing and debugging
the program source may be consulted for details.
.ta \w'/usr/adm/masterlog 'u
/usr/adm/timed.log tracing file for timed
/usr/adm/timed.masterlog log file for master timed
date(1), adjtime(2), icmp(4), timed(8),
\fITSP: The Time Synchronization Protocol for UNIX 4.3BSD\fP,
.ta \w'?Ambiguous command 'u
?Ambiguous command abbreviation matches more than one command
?Invalid command no match found
?Privileged command command can be executed by root only