Introduction to Oracle® Solaris 11.2 Network Services

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Updated: December 2014
 
 

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 and servers.
/etc/inet/ntp.leap
Leap seconds configuration file.
/etc/inet/ntp.keys
Contains the NTP authentication keys.
/etc/inet/ntp.server
Contains additional configuration instructions for some NTP servers.
/usr/lib/inet/ntpd
NTP daemon. See the ntpd (1M) man page for more information.
/usr/sbin/ntp-keygen
Program used to generate public and private keys for NTP. See the ntp-keygen (1M) man page for more information.
/usr/sbin/ntpdc
NTP query program for the ntpd daemon. See the ntpdc (1M) man page for more information.
/usr/sbin/ntpdate
Utility to set the local date and time, based on NTP. See the ntpdate (1M) man page for more information.
/usr/sbin/ntpq
NTP query program. See the ntpq (1M) man page for more information.
/var/ntp/ntpstats
Directory for holding NTP statistics.
/usr/sbin/ntptime
Program to display or set the kernel time variables. See the ntptime (1M) man page for more information.
/usr/sbin/ntptrace
Program to trace NTP hosts back to the master NTP server. See the ntptrace (1M) man page for more information.
/var/ntp/ntp.drift
Sets the initial frequency offset on NTP servers.