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+/* -*- Mode: Text -*- */
+
+autogen definitions options;
+
+#include autogen-version.def
+#include copyright.def
+
+prog-name = "ntpdc";
+prog-title = "vendor-specific NTPD control program";
+argument = '[ host ...]';
+
+#include homerc.def
+
+flag = {
+ name = ipv4;
+ value = 4;
+ flags-cant = ipv6;
+ descrip = "Force IPv4 DNS name resolution";
+ doc = <<- _EndOfDoc_
+ Force DNS resolution of following host names on the command line
+ to the IPv4 namespace.
+ _EndOfDoc_;
+};
+
+flag = {
+ name = ipv6;
+ value = 6;
+ flags-cant = ipv4;
+ descrip = "Force IPv6 DNS name resolution";
+ doc = <<- _EndOfDoc_
+ Force DNS resolution of following host names on the command line
+ to the IPv6 namespace.
+ _EndOfDoc_;
+};
+
+flag = {
+ name = command;
+ value = c;
+ arg-type = string;
+ descrip = "run a command and exit";
+ max = NOLIMIT;
+ arg-name = cmd;
+ stack-arg;
+ doc = <<- _EndOfDoc_
+ The following argument is interpreted as an interactive format command
+ and is added to the list of commands to be executed on the specified
+ host(s).
+ _EndOfDoc_;
+};
+
+#include debug-opt.def
+
+flag = {
+ name = interactive;
+ value = i;
+ flags-cant = command, listpeers, peers, showpeers;
+ descrip = "Force ntpq to operate in interactive mode";
+ doc = <<- _EndOfDoc_
+ Force ntpq to operate in interactive mode. Prompts will be written
+ to the standard output and commands read from the standard input.
+ _EndOfDoc_;
+};
+
+flag = {
+ name = listpeers;
+ value = l;
+ descrip = "Print a list of the peers";
+ flags-cant = command;
+ doc = <<- _EndOfDoc_
+ Print a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary of
+ their state. This is equivalent to the 'listpeers' interactive command.
+ _EndOfDoc_;
+};
+
+flag = {
+ name = numeric;
+ value = n;
+ descrip = "numeric host addresses";
+ doc = <<- _EndOfDoc_
+ Output all host addresses in dotted-quad numeric format rather than
+ converting to the canonical host names.
+ _EndOfDoc_;
+};
+
+flag = {
+ name = peers;
+ value = p;
+ descrip = "Print a list of the peers";
+ flags-cant = command;
+ doc = <<- _EndOfDoc_
+ Print a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary
+ of their state. This is equivalent to the 'peers' interactive command.
+ _EndOfDoc_;
+};
+
+flag = {
+ name = showpeers;
+ value = s;
+ descrip = "Show a list of the peers";
+ flags-cant = command;
+ doc = <<- _EndOfDoc_
+ Print a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary
+ of their state. This is equivalent to the 'dmpeers' interactive command.
+ _EndOfDoc_;
+};
+
+/* explain: Additional information whenever the usage routine is invoked */
+explain = <<- _END_EXPLAIN
+ _END_EXPLAIN;
+
+doc-section = {
+ ds-type = 'DESCRIPTION';
+ ds-format = 'mdoc';
+ ds-text = <<- _END_PROG_MDOC_DESCRIP
+.Nm
+is deprecated.
+Please use
+.Xr ntpq 1ntpqmdoc instead - it can do everything
+.Nm
+used to do, and it does so using a much more sane interface.
+.Pp
+.Nm
+is a utility program used to query
+.Xr ntpd 1ntpdmdoc
+about its
+current state and to request changes in that state.
+It uses NTP mode 7 control message formats described in the source code.
+The program may
+be run either in interactive mode or controlled using command line
+arguments.
+Extensive state and statistics information is available
+through the
+.Nm
+interface.
+In addition, nearly all the
+configuration options which can be specified at startup using
+ntpd's configuration file may also be specified at run time using
+.Nm .
+ _END_PROG_MDOC_DESCRIP;
+};
+
+
+doc-section = {
+ ds-type = 'USAGE';
+ ds-format = 'mdoc';
+ ds-text = <<- _END_MDOC_USAGE
+If one or more request options are included on the command line
+when
+.Nm
+is executed, each of the requests will be sent
+to the NTP servers running on each of the hosts given as command
+line arguments, or on localhost by default.
+If no request options
+are given,
+.Nm
+will attempt to read commands from the
+standard input and execute these on the NTP server running on the
+first host given on the command line, again defaulting to localhost
+when no other host is specified.
+The
+.Nm
+utility will prompt for
+commands if the standard input is a terminal device.
+.Pp
+The
+.Nm
+utility uses NTP mode 7 packets to communicate with the
+NTP server, and hence can be used to query any compatible server on
+the network which permits it.
+Note that since NTP is a UDP protocol
+this communication will be somewhat unreliable, especially over
+large distances in terms of network topology.
+The
+.Nm
+utility makes
+no attempt to retransmit requests, and will time requests out if
+the remote host is not heard from within a suitable timeout
+time.
+.Pp
+The operation of
+.Nm
+are specific to the particular
+implementation of the
+.Xr ntpd 1ntpdmdoc
+daemon and can be expected to
+work only with this and maybe some previous versions of the daemon.
+Requests from a remote
+.Nm
+utility which affect the
+state of the local server must be authenticated, which requires
+both the remote program and local server share a common key and key
+identifier.
+.Pp
+Note that in contexts where a host name is expected, a
+.Fl 4
+qualifier preceding the host name forces DNS resolution to the IPv4 namespace,
+while a
+.Fl 6
+qualifier forces DNS resolution to the IPv6 namespace.
+Specifying a command line option other than
+.Fl i
+or
+.Fl n
+will cause the specified query (queries) to be sent to
+the indicated host(s) immediately.
+Otherwise,
+.Nm
+will
+attempt to read interactive format commands from the standard
+input.
+.Ss "Interactive Commands"
+Interactive format commands consist of a keyword followed by zero
+to four arguments.
+Only enough characters of the full keyword to
+uniquely identify the command need be typed.
+The output of a
+command is normally sent to the standard output, but optionally the
+output of individual commands may be sent to a file by appending a
+.Ql \&> ,
+followed by a file name, to the command line.
+.Pp
+A number of interactive format commands are executed entirely
+within the
+.Nm
+utility itself and do not result in NTP
+mode 7 requests being sent to a server.
+These are described
+following.
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Ic \&? Ar command_keyword
+.It Ic help Ar command_keyword
+A
+.Sq Ic \&?
+will print a list of all the command
+keywords known to this incarnation of
+.Nm .
+A
+.Sq Ic \&?
+followed by a command keyword will print function and usage
+information about the command.
+This command is probably a better
+source of information about
+.Xr ntpq 1ntpqmdoc
+than this manual
+page.
+.It Ic delay Ar milliseconds
+Specify a time interval to be added to timestamps included in
+requests which require authentication.
+This is used to enable
+(unreliable) server reconfiguration over long delay network paths
+or between machines whose clocks are unsynchronized.
+Actually the
+server does not now require timestamps in authenticated requests,
+so this command may be obsolete.
+.It Ic host Ar hostname
+Set the host to which future queries will be sent.
+Hostname may
+be either a host name or a numeric address.
+.It Ic hostnames Op Cm yes | Cm no
+If
+.Cm yes
+is specified, host names are printed in
+information displays.
+If
+.Cm no
+is specified, numeric
+addresses are printed instead.
+The default is
+.Cm yes ,
+unless
+modified using the command line
+.Fl n
+switch.
+.It Ic keyid Ar keyid
+This command allows the specification of a key number to be
+used to authenticate configuration requests.
+This must correspond
+to a key number the server has been configured to use for this
+purpose.
+.It Ic quit
+Exit
+.Nm .
+.It Ic passwd
+This command prompts you to type in a password (which will not
+be echoed) which will be used to authenticate configuration
+requests.
+The password must correspond to the key configured for
+use by the NTP server for this purpose if such requests are to be
+successful.
+.It Ic timeout Ar milliseconds
+Specify a timeout period for responses to server queries.
+The
+default is about 8000 milliseconds.
+Note that since
+.Nm
+retries each query once after a timeout, the total waiting time for
+a timeout will be twice the timeout value set.
+.El
+.Ss "Control Message Commands"
+Query commands result in NTP mode 7 packets containing requests for
+information being sent to the server.
+These are read-only commands
+in that they make no modification of the server configuration
+state.
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Ic listpeers
+Obtains and prints a brief list of the peers for which the
+server is maintaining state.
+These should include all configured
+peer associations as well as those peers whose stratum is such that
+they are considered by the server to be possible future
+synchronization candidates.
+.It Ic peers
+Obtains a list of peers for which the server is maintaining
+state, along with a summary of that state.
+Summary information
+includes the address of the remote peer, the local interface
+address (0.0.0.0 if a local address has yet to be determined), the
+stratum of the remote peer (a stratum of 16 indicates the remote
+peer is unsynchronized), the polling interval, in seconds, the
+reachability register, in octal, and the current estimated delay,
+offset and dispersion of the peer, all in seconds.
+.Pp
+The character in the left margin indicates the mode this peer
+entry is operating in.
+A
+.Ql \&+
+denotes symmetric active, a
+.Ql \&-
+indicates symmetric passive, a
+.Ql \&=
+means the
+remote server is being polled in client mode, a
+.Ql \&^
+indicates that the server is broadcasting to this address, a
+.Ql \&~
+denotes that the remote peer is sending broadcasts and a
+.Ql \&~
+denotes that the remote peer is sending broadcasts and a
+.Ql \&*
+marks the peer the server is currently synchronizing
+to.
+.Pp
+The contents of the host field may be one of four forms.
+It may
+be a host name, an IP address, a reference clock implementation
+name with its parameter or
+.Fn REFCLK "implementation_number" "parameter" .
+On
+.Ic hostnames
+.Cm no
+only IP-addresses
+will be displayed.
+.It Ic dmpeers
+A slightly different peer summary list.
+Identical to the output
+of the
+.Ic peers
+command, except for the character in the
+leftmost column.
+Characters only appear beside peers which were
+included in the final stage of the clock selection algorithm.
+A
+.Ql \&.
+indicates that this peer was cast off in the falseticker
+detection, while a
+.Ql \&+
+indicates that the peer made it
+through.
+A
+.Ql \&*
+denotes the peer the server is currently
+synchronizing with.
+.It Ic showpeer Ar peer_address Oo Ar ... Oc
+Shows a detailed display of the current peer variables for one
+or more peers.
+Most of these values are described in the NTP
+Version 2 specification.
+.It Ic pstats Ar peer_address Oo Ar ... Oc
+Show per-peer statistic counters associated with the specified
+peer(s).
+.It Ic clockstat Ar clock_peer_address Oo Ar ... Oc
+Obtain and print information concerning a peer clock.
+The
+values obtained provide information on the setting of fudge factors
+and other clock performance information.
+.It Ic kerninfo
+Obtain and print kernel phase-lock loop operating parameters.
+This information is available only if the kernel has been specially
+modified for a precision timekeeping function.
+.It Ic loopinfo Op Cm oneline | Cm multiline
+Print the values of selected loop filter variables.
+The loop
+filter is the part of NTP which deals with adjusting the local
+system clock.
+The
+.Sq offset
+is the last offset given to the
+loop filter by the packet processing code.
+The
+.Sq frequency
+is the frequency error of the local clock in parts-per-million
+(ppm).
+The
+.Sq time_const
+controls the stiffness of the
+phase-lock loop and thus the speed at which it can adapt to
+oscillator drift.
+The
+.Sq watchdog timer
+value is the number
+of seconds which have elapsed since the last sample offset was
+given to the loop filter.
+The
+.Cm oneline
+and
+.Cm multiline
+options specify the format in which this
+information is to be printed, with
+.Cm multiline
+as the
+default.
+.It Ic sysinfo
+Print a variety of system state variables, i.e., state related
+to the local server.
+All except the last four lines are described
+in the NTP Version 3 specification, RFC-1305.
+.Pp
+The
+.Sq system flags
+show various system flags, some of
+which can be set and cleared by the
+.Ic enable
+and
+.Ic disable
+configuration commands, respectively.
+These are
+the
+.Cm auth ,
+.Cm bclient ,
+.Cm monitor ,
+.Cm pll ,
+.Cm pps
+and
+.Cm stats
+flags.
+See the
+.Xr ntpd 1ntpdmdoc
+documentation for the meaning of these flags.
+There
+are two additional flags which are read only, the
+.Cm kernel_pll
+and
+.Cm kernel_pps .
+These flags indicate
+the synchronization status when the precision time kernel
+modifications are in use.
+The
+.Sq kernel_pll
+indicates that
+the local clock is being disciplined by the kernel, while the
+.Sq kernel_pps
+indicates the kernel discipline is provided by the PPS
+signal.
+.Pp
+The
+.Sq stability
+is the residual frequency error remaining
+after the system frequency correction is applied and is intended for
+maintenance and debugging.
+In most architectures, this value will
+initially decrease from as high as 500 ppm to a nominal value in
+the range .01 to 0.1 ppm.
+If it remains high for some time after
+starting the daemon, something may be wrong with the local clock,
+or the value of the kernel variable
+.Va kern.clockrate.tick
+may be
+incorrect.
+.Pp
+The
+.Sq broadcastdelay
+shows the default broadcast delay,
+as set by the
+.Ic broadcastdelay
+configuration command.
+.Pp
+The
+.Sq authdelay
+shows the default authentication delay,
+as set by the
+.Ic authdelay
+configuration command.
+.It Ic sysstats
+Print statistics counters maintained in the protocol
+module.
+.It Ic memstats
+Print statistics counters related to memory allocation
+code.
+.It Ic iostats
+Print statistics counters maintained in the input-output
+module.
+.It Ic timerstats
+Print statistics counters maintained in the timer/event queue
+support code.
+.It Ic reslist
+Obtain and print the server's restriction list.
+This list is
+(usually) printed in sorted order and may help to understand how
+the restrictions are applied.
+.It Ic monlist Op Ar version
+Obtain and print traffic counts collected and maintained by the
+monitor facility.
+The version number should not normally need to be
+specified.
+.It Ic clkbug Ar clock_peer_address Oo Ar ... Oc
+Obtain debugging information for a reference clock driver.
+This
+information is provided only by some clock drivers and is mostly
+undecodable without a copy of the driver source in hand.
+.El
+.Ss "Runtime Configuration Requests"
+All requests which cause state changes in the server are
+authenticated by the server using a configured NTP key (the
+facility can also be disabled by the server by not configuring a
+key).
+The key number and the corresponding key must also be made
+known to
+.Nm .
+This can be done using the
+.Ic keyid
+and
+.Ic passwd
+commands, the latter of which will prompt at the terminal for a
+password to use as the encryption key.
+You will also be prompted
+automatically for both the key number and password the first time a
+command which would result in an authenticated request to the
+server is given.
+Authentication not only provides verification that
+the requester has permission to make such changes, but also gives
+an extra degree of protection again transmission errors.
+.Pp
+Authenticated requests always include a timestamp in the packet
+data, which is included in the computation of the authentication
+code.
+This timestamp is compared by the server to its receive time
+stamp.
+If they differ by more than a small amount the request is
+rejected.
+This is done for two reasons.
+First, it makes simple
+replay attacks on the server, by someone who might be able to
+overhear traffic on your LAN, much more difficult.
+Second, it makes
+it more difficult to request configuration changes to your server
+from topologically remote hosts.
+While the reconfiguration facility
+will work well with a server on the local host, and may work
+adequately between time-synchronized hosts on the same LAN, it will
+work very poorly for more distant hosts.
+As such, if reasonable
+passwords are chosen, care is taken in the distribution and
+protection of keys and appropriate source address restrictions are
+applied, the run time reconfiguration facility should provide an
+adequate level of security.
+.Pp
+The following commands all make authenticated requests.
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Xo Ic addpeer Ar peer_address
+.Op Ar keyid
+.Op Ar version
+.Op Cm prefer
+.Xc
+Add a configured peer association at the given address and
+operating in symmetric active mode.
+Note that an existing
+association with the same peer may be deleted when this command is
+executed, or may simply be converted to conform to the new
+configuration, as appropriate.
+If the optional
+.Ar keyid
+is a
+nonzero integer, all outgoing packets to the remote server will
+have an authentication field attached encrypted with this key.
+If
+the value is 0 (or not given) no authentication will be done.
+The
+.Ar version
+can be 1, 2 or 3 and defaults to 3.
+The
+.Cm prefer
+keyword indicates a preferred peer (and thus will
+be used primarily for clock synchronisation if possible).
+The
+preferred peer also determines the validity of the PPS signal - if
+the preferred peer is suitable for synchronisation so is the PPS
+signal.
+.It Xo Ic addserver Ar peer_address
+.Op Ar keyid
+.Op Ar version
+.Op Cm prefer
+.Xc
+Identical to the addpeer command, except that the operating
+mode is client.
+.It Xo Ic broadcast Ar peer_address
+.Op Ar keyid
+.Op Ar version
+.Op Cm prefer
+.Xc
+Identical to the addpeer command, except that the operating
+mode is broadcast.
+In this case a valid key identifier and key are
+required.
+The
+.Ar peer_address
+parameter can be the broadcast
+address of the local network or a multicast group address assigned
+to NTP.
+If a multicast address, a multicast-capable kernel is
+required.
+.It Ic unconfig Ar peer_address Oo Ar ... Oc
+This command causes the configured bit to be removed from the
+specified peer(s).
+In many cases this will cause the peer
+association to be deleted.
+When appropriate, however, the
+association may persist in an unconfigured mode if the remote peer
+is willing to continue on in this fashion.
+.It Xo Ic fudge Ar peer_address
+.Op Cm time1
+.Op Cm time2
+.Op Ar stratum
+.Op Ar refid
+.Xc
+This command provides a way to set certain data for a reference
+clock.
+See the source listing for further information.
+.It Xo Ic enable
+.Oo
+.Cm auth | Cm bclient |
+.Cm calibrate | Cm kernel |
+.Cm monitor | Cm ntp |
+.Cm pps | Cm stats
+.Oc
+.Xc
+.It Xo Ic disable
+.Oo
+.Cm auth | Cm bclient |
+.Cm calibrate | Cm kernel |
+.Cm monitor | Cm ntp |
+.Cm pps | Cm stats
+.Oc
+.Xc
+These commands operate in the same way as the
+.Ic enable
+and
+.Ic disable
+configuration file commands of
+.Xr ntpd 1ntpdmdoc .
+.Bl -tag -width indent
+.It Cm auth
+Enables the server to synchronize with unconfigured peers only
+if the peer has been correctly authenticated using either public key
+or private key cryptography.
+The default for this flag is enable.
+.It Cm bclient
+Enables the server to listen for a message from a broadcast or
+multicast server, as in the multicastclient command with
+default address.
+The default for this flag is disable.
+.It Cm calibrate
+Enables the calibrate feature for reference clocks.
+The default for this flag is disable.
+.It Cm kernel
+Enables the kernel time discipline, if available.
+The default for this flag is enable if support is available, otherwise disable.
+.It Cm monitor
+Enables the monitoring facility.
+See the documentation here about the
+.Cm monlist
+command or further information.
+The default for this flag is enable.
+.It Cm ntp
+Enables time and frequency discipline.
+In effect, this switch opens and closes the feedback loop,
+which is useful for testing.
+The default for this flag is enable.
+.It Cm pps
+Enables the pulse-per-second (PPS) signal when frequency
+and time is disciplined by the precision time kernel modifications.
+See the
+.Qq A Kernel Model for Precision Timekeeping
+(available as part of the HTML documentation
+provided in
+.Pa /usr/share/doc/ntp )
+page for further information.
+The default for this flag is disable.
+.It Cm stats
+Enables the statistics facility.
+See the
+.Sx Monitoring Options
+section of
+.Xr ntp.conf 5
+for further information.
+The default for this flag is disable.
+.El
+.It Xo Ic restrict Ar address Ar mask
+.Ar flag Oo Ar ... Oc
+.Xc
+This command operates in the same way as the
+.Ic restrict
+configuration file commands of
+.Xr ntpd 1ntpdmdoc .
+.It Xo Ic unrestrict Ar address Ar mask
+.Ar flag Oo Ar ... Oc
+.Xc
+Unrestrict the matching entry from the restrict list.
+.It Xo Ic delrestrict Ar address Ar mask
+.Op Cm ntpport
+.Xc
+Delete the matching entry from the restrict list.
+.It Ic readkeys
+Causes the current set of authentication keys to be purged and
+a new set to be obtained by rereading the keys file (which must
+have been specified in the
+.Xr ntpd 1ntpdmdoc
+configuration file).
+This
+allows encryption keys to be changed without restarting the
+server.
+.It Ic trustedkey Ar keyid Oo Ar ... Oc
+.It Ic untrustedkey Ar keyid Oo Ar ... Oc
+These commands operate in the same way as the
+.Ic trustedkey
+and
+.Ic untrustedkey
+configuration file
+commands of
+.Xr ntpd 1ntpdmdoc .
+.It Ic authinfo
+Returns information concerning the authentication module,
+including known keys and counts of encryptions and decryptions
+which have been done.
+.It Ic traps
+Display the traps set in the server.
+See the source listing for
+further information.
+.It Xo Ic addtrap Ar address
+.Op Ar port
+.Op Ar interface
+.Xc
+Set a trap for asynchronous messages.
+See the source listing
+for further information.
+.It Xo Ic clrtrap Ar address
+.Op Ar port
+.Op Ar interface
+.Xc
+Clear a trap for asynchronous messages.
+See the source listing
+for further information.
+.It Ic reset
+Clear the statistics counters in various modules of the server.
+See the source listing for further information.
+.El
+ _END_MDOC_USAGE;
+};
+
+
+doc-section = {
+ ds-type = 'SEE ALSO';
+ ds-format = 'mdoc';
+ ds-text = <<- _END_MDOC_SEEALSO
+.Xr ntp.conf 5 ,
+.Xr ntpd 1ntpdmdoc
+.Rs
+.%A David L. Mills
+.%T Network Time Protocol (Version 3)
+.%O RFC1305
+.Re
+ _END_MDOC_SEEALSO;
+};
+
+
+doc-section = {
+ ds-type = 'AUTHORS';
+ ds-format = 'mdoc';
+ ds-text = <<- _END_MDOC_AUTHORS
+The formatting directives in this document came from FreeBSD.
+ _END_MDOC_AUTHORS;
+};
+
+
+doc-section = {
+ ds-type = 'BUGS';
+ ds-format = 'mdoc';
+ ds-text = <<- _END_MDOC_BUGS
+The
+.Nm
+utility is a crude hack.
+Much of the information it shows is
+deadly boring and could only be loved by its implementer.
+The
+program was designed so that new (and temporary) features were easy
+to hack in, at great expense to the program's ease of use.
+Despite
+this, the program is occasionally useful.
+.Pp
+Please report bugs to http://bugs.ntp.org .
+ _END_MDOC_BUGS;
+};