ntprc - file to initialize preferences for NTP programs
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ntprc(5) File Formats ntprc(5)
NAME
ntprc - file to initialize preferences for NTP programs
DESCRIPTION
The .ntprc file contains data used to initialize certain parameters for
various NTP related programs. When these programs are started, the cur-
rent directory is searched for the existence of the .ntprc file. If
found, the file is read and searched for a section header that speci-
fies the program being run. If such a section is found, then the lines
in that section are used to initialize the program. If such a section
is not found and no other sections are found, then the whole file is
used do the initialization. If the file is not found in the current
directory, the users home directory is searched if found then it is
processed as above.
The .ntprc file is a text file, with each line specifying the settings
of a command line flag. The flags are indicated by the use of the
flag's long name. Anything after the long name on the line is used to
set the value of the flag if it takes a value. The same file is used by
several NTP programs, so to separate which lines go with which pro-
grams, the file is split into sections. Each section is marked with the
name of the corresponding program in all capital letters and inside
square brackets. Comments can be given in the file by beginning the
comment line with a "#" in the first column.
The best way to set the lines in the file is to run the command in
question with all of the flags the way you want them and to give the
--save-opts filename flag at the end to save the parameters to a file.
After that, simply edit the resulting file to remove the comments and
add the section header and then append the file to the .ntprc file.
EXAMPLES
Example 1 A Sample .ntprc File
A .ntprc file containing the following lines:
[NTPQ]
numeric
command rv 0
[NTPDC]
peers
will force the ntpq program to always execute the "rv 0" command and
print the results with IP addresses and not hostname.
FILES
~/.ntprc
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+---------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+---------------------+
|Availability | service/network/ntp |
+---------------+---------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+---------------------+
SEE ALSO
ntpq(8), ntp-keygen(8)
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from http://ar-
chive.ntp.org/ntp4/ntp-4.2/ntp-4.2.8p15.tar.gz.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at http://www.ntp.org/.
ntprc(5)