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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.