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+README file for directory ./scripts of the NTP Version 4 distribution
+
+This directory contains shell and perl script files for the configuration,
+monitoring and support of NTP installations. See the README and RELNOTES
+files in the parent directory for directions on how to use these files.
+
+calc_tickadj Calculates "optimal" value for tick given ntp.drift file
+
+monitoring directory containing perl scripts useful for monitoring
+ operations
+
+rc start/stop scripts for NTP
+
+ntp-wait Blocks until ntpd is in state 4 (synchronized).
+ Useful at boot time, to delay the boot sequence
+ until after "ntpd -g" has set the time.
+
+ntpsweep prints per host given in <file> the NTP stratum level, the
+ clock offset in seconds, the daemon version, the operating
+ system and the processor.
+
+ntptrace Trace ntp peers of a server up to stratum 1.
+
+stats directory containing awk and shell scripts useful for
+ maintaining statistics summaries of clockstats, loopstats
+ and peerstats files
+
+summary Generate summary files out of stat files produced by NTP
+ daemon.
+
+plot_summary Plot summaries generated by summary script.