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 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.