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1.1       misho       1: .TH NTPDC 1 2011-12-24 "( 4.2.6p5)" "Programmer's Manual"
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                      8: .SH NAME
                      9: ntpdc \- vendor-specific NTP query program
                     10: .SH SYNOPSIS
                     11: .B ntpdc
                     12: .\" Mixture of short (flag) options and long options
                     13: .RB [ \-\fIflag\fP " [\fIvalue\fP]]... [" \--\fIopt-name\fP " [[=| ]\fIvalue\fP]]..."
                     14: .br
                     15: .in +8
                     16: [ host ...]
                     17: .SH "DESCRIPTION"
                     18: This manual page briefly documents the \fBntpdc\fP command.
                     19: The
                     20: [= prog-name =]
                     21: utility program is used to query an NTP daemon about its
                     22: current state and to request changes in that state.
                     23: It uses NTP mode 7 control message formats described in the source code.
                     24: The program may
                     25: be run either in interactive mode or controlled using command line
                     26: arguments.
                     27: Extensive state and statistics information is available
                     28: through the
                     29: [= prog-name =]
                     30: interface.
                     31: In addition, nearly all the
                     32: configuration options which can be specified at startup using
                     33: ntpd's configuration file may also be specified at run time using
                     34: [= prog-name =] .
                     35: 
                     36: 
                     37: .SH OPTIONS
                     38: .TP
                     39: .BR \-4 ", " \--ipv4
                     40: Force IPv4 DNS name resolution.
                     41: This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options:
                     42: ipv6.
                     43: .sp
                     44: Force DNS resolution of following host names on the command line
                     45: to the IPv4 namespace.
                     46: .TP
                     47: .BR \-6 ", " \--ipv6
                     48: Force IPv6 DNS name resolution.
                     49: This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options:
                     50: ipv4.
                     51: .sp
                     52: Force DNS resolution of following host names on the command line
                     53: to the IPv6 namespace.
                     54: .TP
                     55: .BR \-c " \fIcmd\fP, " \--command "=" \fIcmd\fP
                     56: run a command and exit.
                     57: This option may appear an unlimited number of times.
                     58: .sp
                     59: The following argument is interpreted as an interactive format command
                     60: and is added to the list of commands to be executed on the specified
                     61: host(s).
                     62: .TP
                     63: .BR \-l ", " \--listpeers
                     64: Print a list of the peers.
                     65: This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options:
                     66: command.
                     67: .sp
                     68: Print a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary of
                     69: their state. This is equivalent to the 'listpeers' interactive command.
                     70: .TP
                     71: .BR \-p ", " \--peers
                     72: Print a list of the peers.
                     73: This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options:
                     74: command.
                     75: .sp
                     76: Print a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary
                     77: of their state. This is equivalent to the 'peers' interactive command.
                     78: .TP
                     79: .BR \-s ", " \--showpeers
                     80: Show a list of the peers.
                     81: This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options:
                     82: command.
                     83: .sp
                     84: Print a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary
                     85: of their state. This is equivalent to the 'dmpeers' interactive command.
                     86: .TP
                     87: .BR \-i ", " \--interactive
                     88: Force ntpq to operate in interactive mode.
                     89: This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options:
                     90: command, listpeers, peers, showpeers.
                     91: .sp
                     92: Force ntpq to operate in interactive mode.  Prompts will be written
                     93: to the standard output and commands read from the standard input.
                     94: .TP
                     95: .BR \-d ", " \--debug-level
                     96: Increase output debug message level.
                     97: This option may appear an unlimited number of times.
                     98: .sp
                     99: Increase the debugging message output level.
                    100: .TP
                    101: .BR \-D " \fIstring\fP, " \--set-debug-level "=" \fIstring\fP
                    102: Set the output debug message level.
                    103: This option may appear an unlimited number of times.
                    104: .sp
                    105: Set the output debugging level.  Can be supplied multiple times,
                    106: but each overrides the previous value(s).
                    107: .TP
                    108: .BR \-n ", " \--numeric
                    109: numeric host addresses.
                    110: .sp
                    111: Output all host addresses in dotted-quad numeric format rather than
                    112: converting to the canonical host names. 
                    113: .TP
                    114: .BR \-? , " \--help"
                    115: Display extended usage information and exit.
                    116: .TP
                    117: .BR \-! , " \--more-help"
                    118: Extended usage information passed thru pager.
                    119: .TP
                    120: .BR \-> " [\fIrcfile\fP]," " \--save-opts" "[=\fIrcfile\fP]"
                    121: Save the option state to \fIrcfile\fP.  The default is the \fIlast\fP
                    122: configuration file listed in the \fBOPTION PRESETS\fP section, below.
                    123: .TP
                    124: .BR \-< " \fIrcfile\fP," " \--load-opts" "=\fIrcfile\fP," " \--no-load-opts"
                    125: Load options from \fIrcfile\fP.
                    126: The \fIno-load-opts\fP form will disable the loading
                    127: of earlier RC/INI files.  \fI--no-load-opts\fP is handled early,
                    128: out of order.
                    129: .TP
                    130: .BR \- " [{\fIv|c|n\fP}]," " \--version" "[=\fI{v|c|n}\fP]"
                    131: Output version of program and exit.  The default mode is `v', a simple
                    132: version.  The `c' mode will print copyright information and `n' will
                    133: print the full copyright notice.
                    134: .SH OPTION PRESETS
                    135: Any option that is not marked as \fInot presettable\fP may be preset
                    136: by loading values from configuration ("RC" or ".INI") file(s) and values from
                    137: environment variables named:
                    138: .nf
                    139:   \fBNTPDC_<option-name>\fP or \fBNTPDC\fP
                    140: .fi
                    141: .ad
                    142: The environmental presets take precedence (are processed later than)
                    143: the configuration files.
                    144: The \fIhomerc\fP files are "\fI$HOME\fP", and "\fI.\fP".
                    145: If any of these are directories, then the file \fI.ntprc\fP
                    146: is searched for within those directories.
                    147: .SH AUTHOR
                    148: David L. Mills and/or others
                    149: .br
                    150: Please send bug reports to:  http://bugs.ntp.org, bugs@ntp.org
                    151: 
                    152: .PP
                    153: .nf
                    154: .na
                    155: see html/copyright.html
                    156: 
                    157: .fi
                    158: .ad
                    159: .PP
                    160: This manual page was \fIAutoGen\fP-erated from the \fBntpdc\fP
                    161: option definitions.