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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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ntptrace — Trace a Chain of NTP Hosts Back to Their Master Time Source

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/ntptrace [-vdn][-r retries][-t timeout][server]

Description

Use the ntptrace command to determine where a given Network Time Protocol (NTP) server gets its time and to follow the chain of NTP servers back to their master time source. If given no arguments, nptrace starts with localhost.

Options

-d Turn on some debugging output.
-n Turn off the printing of host names; instead, display host IP addresses. This may be necessary if a nameserver is down.
-r retries Set the number of retransmission attempts for each host.
-t timeout Set the retransmission timeout (in seconds); default is 2.
-v Print verbose information about the NTP servers.

Examples

The following ...

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