Brian,
There is no ntpstat in the current NTP distribution. There is no man
page for it in the distribution. If you find such a program, it did not
come from ntp.org.
Dave
Brian T. Brunner wrote:
I'll assert the manual pages and the HTML pages don't give enough information
about ntpstat to have figured this out by 'sudo RTFM'.
Man page entries for ntpstat (found by Yahoo) give Profoundly Useless
information.
ntpstat returns 0 if clock is synchronized.
ntpstat returns 1 if clock is not synchronized.
ntpstat returns 2 if clock state is indeterminate, for example if ntpd is not contractible.
=> this trinary status is not equal to "SEEKING_n"
man ntpstat on my RH7.3 system returns that there is no man for ntpstat.
ntpstat returns 'command not found'.
locate ntpstat returns nothing.
Note: I am running ntpd as a service so I must have installed something!
ntpstat didn't come with it.
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp/html/index.html has nothing for ntpstat
that I could find
http://www.ntp.org/htdig/search.html returns no hits for ntpstat.
http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/ntp.html has nothing like "System Level Commands
Explained" and nothing for ntpstat itself.
http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/WebSearch given a topic name of ntpstat
returns nothing, topic text of ntpstat returns two hits neither of which is a
man page.
I'd suggest it's time you guys stopped being the best kept secret around.
I wish I could grep through /proc/sys/ntp and find the configured servers and their current states.
This probably wouldn't help the Solaris/Windows folks much...
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Brian Brunner
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missing from the ntpd design(?): some system-readable TimeIsGood flag set
by ntpd for applications to use where they must have trustable time. alt:
TimeStateIs flag with values of LOST (no net, no idea what time it is),
SEEKING (found a source, getting time), and SYNC (time is good) alt:
SEEKING_n for n ranging 1 to the "minimum acceptable set size" for your
site; SYNC means the highest minimum has been met. This allows different
applications to decide when is the time sufficiently good for that
application.
Are you saying that the stratum information can't provide you with
adequate information about how much faith to put in your time, or that the
output from ntpstat (three different example results below) isn't machine
parseable in some useful way?
synchronised to local net at stratum 8
time correct to within 12 ms
polling server every 64 s
unsynchronised
time server re-starting
polling server every 64 s
synchronised to NTP server (83.137.103.134) at stratum 3
time correct to within 264 ms
polling server every 64 s
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