README file for directory ./scripts of the NTP Version 4 distribution
This directory contains shell and perl script files for the configuration,
monitoring and support of NTP installations. See the README and RELNOTES
files in the parent directory for directions on how to use these files.
calc_tickadj Calculates "optimal" value for tick given ntp.drift file
freq_adj Calculates and optionally sets the clock frequency
based on ntp.drift . For FreeBSD systems.
mkver.in script to create new version numbers for all sources
monitoring directory containing perl scripts useful for monitoring
operations
rc1 start/stop scripts for NTP
rc2 start/stop script for NTP
ntp-close find public stratum 2 servers that don't respond
ntp-groper script useful for reaching out and rattling the cages of
NTP peers to see if animals are inside the bars
ntp-restart script useful for killing and restarting the NTP daemon
ntp-wait Blocks until ntpd is in state 4 (synchronized).
Hopefully useful at boot time, to delay the boot sequence
until after "ntpd -g" has set the time.
ntpsweep prints per host given in <file> the NTP stratum level, the
clock offset in seconds, the daemon version, the operating
system and the processor.
ntpver What version of the NTP daemon is running?
stats directory containing awk and shell scripts useful for
maintaining statistics summaries of clockstats, loopstats
and peerstats files
support directory containing shell and perl scripts useful for
configuration and monitoring of NTP subnets