System Administration Guide: Network Services

Network Time Protocol (Reference)

The following files are needed for the NTP service to run.

Table 3–1 NTP Files


File Name	Function
`/etc/inet/ntp.conf`	Lists configuration options for NTP.
`/etc/inet/ntp.client`	Sample configuration file for NTP clients.
`/etc/inet/ntp.server`	Sample configuration file for NTP servers.
`/etc/inet/ntp.keys`	Contains the NTP authentication keys.
`/usr/lib/inet/xntpd`	NTP daemon. See xntpd(1M) for more information.
`/usr/sbin/ntpdate`	Utility to set the local date and time, based on NTP. See ntpdate(1M) for more information.
`/usr/sbin/ntpq`	NTP query program. See ntpq(1M) for more information.
`/usr/sbin/ntptrace`	Program to trace NTP hosts back to the master NTP server. See ntptrace(1M) for more information.
`/usr/sbin/xntpdc`	NTP query program for the `xntpd` daemon. See xntpdc(1M) for more information.
`/var/ntp/ntpstats`	Directory for holding NTP statistics.
`/var/ntp/ntp.drift`	Sets the initial frequency offset on NTP servers.