ntpstat

Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: $Date: 2001/06/22 03:27:10 $
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NAME

ntpstat - show network time synchronisation status  

SYNOPSIS

ntpstat  

DESCRIPTION

ntpstat will report the synchronisation state of the NTP daemon running on the local machine. If the local system is found to be synchronised to a reference time source, ntpstat will report the approximate time accuracy.

 

RETURNS

ntpstat returns 0 if clock is synchronised. ntpstat returns 1 if clock is not synchronised. ntpstat returns 2 if clock state is indeterminant, for example if ntpd is not contactable.

 

SEE ALSO

ntpdc, ntpdq

 

AUTHOR

G. Richard Keech (rkeech@redhat.com)