tickadj [ -Aqs ] [ -a tickadj ] [ -t tick ]

By default, with no arguments, tickadj reads the variables of interest in the kernel and displays them. At the same time, it determines an "optimal" value for the value of the tickadj variable if the intent is to run the ntpd Network Time Protocol (NTP) daemon, and prints this as well. Since the operation of tickadj when reading the kernel mimics the operation of similar parts of the ntpd program fairly closely, this can be useful when debugging problems with ntpd .

Note that tickadj should be run with some caution when being used for the first time on different types of machines. The operations which tickadj tries to perform are not guaranteed to work on all Unix machines and may in rare cases cause the kernel to crash.

-a

tickadj Set the kernel variable tickadj to the value tickadj specified.

-A

Set the kernel variable tickadj to an internally computed "optimal" value.

-t

tick Set the kernel variable tick to the value tick specified.

-s

Set the kernel variable dosynctodr to zero, which disables the hardware time-of-year clock, a prerequisite for running the ntpd daemon under SunOS4.

-q

Normally, tickadj is quite verbose about what it is doing. The -q flag tells it to shut up about everything except errors.

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