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<h1 class="settitle" align="center">calc_tickadj User’s Manual</h1>
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<span id="calc_005ftickadj-User_0027s-Manual"></span><h1 class="top">calc_tickadj User’s Manual</h1>
<p>This document describes the use of the NTP Project’s <code>calc_tickadj</code> program.
This document applies to version 4.2.8p17 of <code>calc_tickadj</code>.
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<h2 class="shortcontents-heading">Short Table of Contents</h2>
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<li><a id="stoc-Invoking-calc_005ftickadj" href="#toc-Invoking-calc_005ftickadj">1 Invoking calc_tickadj</a></li>
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• calc_tickadj Description</td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Description
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-Invocation" accesskey="2">calc_tickadj Invocation</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">Invoking calc_tickadj
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<span id="Invoking-calc_005ftickadj"></span><h2 class="chapter">1 Invoking calc_tickadj</h2>
<span id="index-calc_005ftickadj"></span>
<span id="index-Calculates-_0022optimal_0022-value-for-tick-given-ntp-drift-file_002e"></span>
<p>The <code>calc_tickadj</code> script uses provided ntp drift file to generate optimal
tick value. Generally, ntpd can do better job if the drift value is the
smallest possible number.
</p>
<p>The example output of
</p><div class="example">
<pre class="example">$ ./calc_tickadj
81.699 (drift)
9999 usec; 9999779 nsec
$ cat /etc/ntp/drift
-23.159
</pre></div>
<p>means the following. If tick on that box is 10,000, by making the value 9999
we’ll shift the box from its current drift of -23.159 to a drift of 81.699, and
in doing so we’ll speed the clock up a little every second instead of slowing
the clock down a little.
</p>
<p>If ’tick’ on that box is 10,000,000 then by setting it to 9999779 the drift
value will be somewhere around 0.0.
</p>
<p><code>calc_tickadj</code> tries to determine the the tick value by using
<code>tickadj</code> program from ntp package. If this doesn’t work you can specify
current tick manually on command line.
</p>
<p>This section was generated by <strong>AutoGen</strong>,
using the <code>agtexi-cmd</code> template and the option descriptions for the <code>calc_tickadj</code> program.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-usage" accesskey="1">calc_tickadj usage</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">calc_tickadj help/usage (<samp>--help</samp>)
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-drift_002dfile" accesskey="2">calc_tickadj drift-file</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">drift-file option (-d)
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-tick" accesskey="3">calc_tickadj tick</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">tick option (-t)
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-exit-status" accesskey="4">calc_tickadj exit status</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">exit status
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<span id="calc_005ftickadj-help_002fusage-_0028_002d_002dhelp_0029"></span><h3 class="section">1.1 calc_tickadj help/usage (<samp>--help</samp>)</h3>
<span id="index-calc_005ftickadj-help"></span>
<p>This is the automatically generated usage text for calc_tickadj.
</p>
<p>The text printed is the same whether selected with the <code>help</code> option
(<samp>--help</samp>) or the <code>more-help</code> option (<samp>--more-help</samp>). <code>more-help</code> will print
the usage text by passing it through a pager program.
<code>more-help</code> is disabled on platforms without a working
<code>fork(2)</code> function. The <code>PAGER</code> environment variable is
used to select the program, defaulting to <samp>more</samp>. Both will exit
with a status code of 0.
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<pre class="example">calc_tickadj - Calculates "optimal" value for tick given ntp drift file. - Ver. 4.2.8p15
USAGE: calc_tickadj [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]...
-d, --drift-file=str Ntp drift file to use
-t, --tick=num Tick value of this host
-?, --help Display usage information and exit
--more-help Pass the extended usage text through a pager
Options are specified by doubled hyphens and their name or by a single
hyphen and the flag character.
</pre></div>
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-drift_002dfile" accesskey="1">drift-file option (-d)</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-tick" accesskey="2">tick option (-t)</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">• <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-exit-status" accesskey="3">calc_tickadj exit status</a></td><td> </td><td align="left" valign="top">
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<span id="drift_002dfile-option-_0028_002dd_0029"></span><h4 class="subsection">1.1.1 drift-file option (-d)</h4>
<span id="index-calc_005ftickadj_002ddrift_002dfile"></span>
<p>This is the “ntp drift file to use” option.
This option takes a string argument.
Use the specified drift file for calculations
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<span id="calc_005ftickadj-tick"></span><div class="header">
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Next: <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-exit-status" accesskey="n" rel="next">calc_tickadj exit status</a>, Previous: <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-drift_002dfile" accesskey="p" rel="prev">calc_tickadj drift-file</a>, Up: <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-usage" accesskey="u" rel="up">calc_tickadj usage</a> </p>
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<span id="tick-option-_0028_002dt_0029"></span><h4 class="subsection">1.1.2 tick option (-t)</h4>
<span id="index-calc_005ftickadj_002dtick"></span>
<p>This is the “tick value of this host” option.
This option takes a number argument.
The current tick which to adjustment will be calculated
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Previous: <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-tick" accesskey="p" rel="prev">calc_tickadj tick</a>, Up: <a href="#calc_005ftickadj-usage" accesskey="u" rel="up">calc_tickadj usage</a> </p>
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<span id="calc_005ftickadj-exit-status-1"></span><h4 class="subsection">1.1.3 calc_tickadj exit status</h4>
<p>One of the following exit values will be returned:
</p><dl compact="compact">
<dt>‘<samp>0 (EXIT_SUCCESS)</samp>’</dt>
<dd><p>Successful program execution.
</p></dd>
<dt>‘<samp>1 (EXIT_FAILURE)</samp>’</dt>
<dd><p>The operation failed or the command syntax was not valid.
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