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diff --git a/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man8/clockdiff.8 b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man8/clockdiff.8 new file mode 100644 index 00000000..52d963ed --- /dev/null +++ b/upstream/opensuse-tumbleweed/man8/clockdiff.8 @@ -0,0 +1,112 @@ +'\" t +.TH "CLOCKDIFF" "8" "" "iputils 20240117" "iputils" +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * Define some portability stuff +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.\" http://bugs.debian.org/507673 +.\" http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/groff/2009-02/msg00013.html +.\" ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq +.el .ds Aq ' +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * set default formatting +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" disable hyphenation +.nh +.\" disable justification (adjust text to left margin only) +.ad l +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.\" * MAIN CONTENT STARTS HERE * +.\" ----------------------------------------------------------------- +.SH "NAME" +clockdiff \- measure clock difference between hosts +.SH "SYNOPSIS" +.HP \w'\fBclockdiff\fR\ 'u +\fBclockdiff\fR [\fB\-o\fR] [\fB\-o1\fR] [\fB\-\-time\-format\ \fR\fB\fIctime\ iso\fR\fR] [\fB\-V\fR] {destination} +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.PP +\fBclockdiff\fR +Measures clock difference between us and +\fIdestination\fR +with 1 msec resolution using ICMP TIMESTAMP [2] packets or, optionally, IP TIMESTAMP option [3] added to ICMP ECHO\&. [1] +.SH "OPTIONS" +.PP +\fB\-o\fR +.RS 4 +Use IP TIMESTAMP with ICMP ECHO instead of ICMP TIMESTAMP messages\&. It is useful with some destinations, which do not support ICMP TIMESTAMP (f\&.e\&. Solaris <2\&.4)\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-o1\fR +.RS 4 +Slightly different form of +\fB\-o\fR, namely it uses three\-term IP TIMESTAMP with prespecified hop addresses instead of four term one\&. What flavor works better depends on target host\&. Particularly, +\fB\-o\fR +is better for Linux\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-T\fR, \fB\-\-time\-format \fR\fB\fIctime iso\fR\fR +.RS 4 +Print time stamp in output either ISO\-8601 format or classical ctime format\&. The ctime format is default\&. The ISO time stamp includes timezone, and is easier to parse\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-I\fR +.RS 4 +Alias of +\fB\-\-time\-format \fR\fB\fIiso\fR\fR\fB \fR +option and argument\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR +.RS 4 +Print help and exit\&. +.RE +.PP +\fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR +.RS 4 +Print version and exit\&. +.RE +.SH "WARNINGS" +.PP +.RS 4 +\(bu Some nodes (Cisco) use non\-standard timestamps, which is allowed by RFC, but makes timestamps mostly useless\&. +.RE +.PP +.RS 4 +\(bu Some nodes generate messed timestamps (Solaris>2\&.4), when run +\fBxntpd\fR\&. Seems, its IP stack uses a corrupted clock source, which is synchronized to time\-of\-day clock periodically and jumps randomly making timestamps mostly useless\&. Good news is that you can use NTP in this case, which is even better\&. +.RE +.PP +.RS 4 +\(bu +\fBclockdiff\fR +shows difference in time modulo 24 days\&. +.RE +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.PP +\fBping\fR(8), +\fBarping\fR(8), +\fBtracepath\fR(8)\&. +.SH "REFERENCES" +.PP +[1] ICMP ECHO, RFC0792, page 14\&. +.PP +[2] ICMP TIMESTAMP, RFC0792, page 16\&. +.PP +[3] IP TIMESTAMP option, RFC0791, 3\&.1, page 16\&. +.SH "AUTHOR" +.PP +\fBclockdiff\fR +was compiled by Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2\&.inr\&.ac\&.ru>\&. It was based on code borrowed from BSD +\fBtimed\fR +daemon\&. +.SH "SECURITY" +.PP +\fBclockdiff\fR +requires CAP_NET_RAW and CAP_SYS_NICE capabilities to be executed\&. It is safe to be used as set\-uid root\&. +.SH "AVAILABILITY" +.PP +\fBclockdiff\fR +is part of +\fIiputils\fR +package\&. |