1.182 XNTPD

Purpose

XNTPD is the implementation of Network Time Protocol Version 3 (NTPv3) on NetWare 6.5 based on RFC 1305. It is the new time synchronization service that is used to synchronize time with servers that are NTPv3 compliant.

Syntax



XNTPD [-aAbdm] [-c conffile] [-f driftfile] [-k keyfile] [-l logfile] [-p pidfile] [-r broadcastdelay] [-s statsdir] [-t key] [-v variable] [-V variable] [-T slp/noncp] [-S]

Table 1-23 XNTPD Parameters

Parameter

Use to

-a

Enable authentication mode. By default, authentication is enabled.

-A

Disable authentication mode.

-b

Synchronize using NTP broadcast messages.

-c conffile

Specify the name and path of the configuration file.

-d

Specify the debugging mode. This flag might occur multiple times, with each occurrence indicating greater detail of display.

-f driftfile

Specify the name and path of the drift file.

-k keyfield

Specify the name and path of the file containing the NTP authentication keys.

-l logfile

Specify the name and path of the log file.

-m

Synchronize using NTP multicast messages on the IP multicast group address 224.0.1.1. Requires multicast kernel.

-p pidfile

Specify the name and path to record the daemon's process ID.

-r broadcastdelay

Specify the default propagation delay from the broadcast/multicast server to your server. This is used only if the delay cannot be computed automatically by the protocol.

-s statsdir

Specify the directory path for files created by the statistics facility.

-t key

Add a key number to the trusted key list.

-v variable

Add a system variable.

-V variable

Add a system variable listed by default.

-T slp

Provide Timesync migration or backward compatibility options.

Enables NTP to automatically discover SLP advertising Timesync Single server on the network and add that server’s IP address to the ntp.cfg configuration file as a time provider.

-T noncp

Stop the NCP engine on XNTPD, which serves all NCP time requests from NetWare 4, Novell clients, and DSREPAIR.

-S

Step synchronization. XNTPD sets the clock to the time of the best available server, then sets the clock status to “nearly in sync.” Basically, it helps speed synchronization.

Using XNTPD

Examples