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1@node summary Invocation 2@section Invoking summary 3@pindex summary 4@cindex compute various stastics from NTP stat files 5@ignore 6# 7# EDIT THIS FILE WITH CAUTION (invoke-summary.texi) 8# 9# It has been AutoGen-ed June 23, 2020 at 02:21:50 AM by AutoGen 5.18.5 10# From the definitions summary-opts.def 11# and the template file agtexi-cmd.tpl 12@end ignore 13 14 15 16 17This section was generated by @strong{AutoGen}, 18using the @code{agtexi-cmd} template and the option descriptions for the @code{summary} program. 19 20@menu 21* summary usage:: summary help/usage (@option{--help}) 22* summary directory:: directory option 23* summary end-date:: end-date option 24* summary output-directory:: output-directory option 25* summary start-date:: start-date option 26* summary exit status:: exit status 27@end menu 28 29@node summary usage 30@subsection summary help/usage (@option{--help}) 31@cindex summary help 32 33This is the automatically generated usage text for summary. 34 35The text printed is the same whether selected with the @code{help} option 36(@option{--help}) or the @code{more-help} option (@option{--more-help}). @code{more-help} will print 37the usage text by passing it through a pager program. 38@code{more-help} is disabled on platforms without a working 39@code{fork(2)} function. The @code{PAGER} environment variable is 40used to select the program, defaulting to @file{more}. Both will exit 41with a status code of 0. 42 43@exampleindent 0 44@example 45summary - compute various stastics from NTP stat files - Ver. 4.2.8p15 46USAGE: summary [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[@{=| @}<val>] ]... 47 48 --directory=str Directory containing stat files 49 --end-date=num End date 50 --output-directory=str Output directory 51 --peer-dist-limit=float Peer dist limit 52 --skip-time-steps=float Ignore time offsets larger that this 53 --start-date=num Start date 54 -?, --help Display usage information and exit 55 --more-help Pass the extended usage text through a pager 56 57Options are specified by doubled hyphens and their name or by a single 58hyphen and the flag character. 59@end example 60@exampleindent 4 61 62@node summary directory 63@subsection directory option 64@cindex summary-directory 65 66This is the ``directory containing stat files'' option. 67This option takes a string argument. 68 The directory where @code{ntpd} will search for .stat files generated 69 by @code{ntpd}. 70@node summary end-date 71@subsection end-date option 72@cindex summary-end-date 73 74This is the ``end date'' option. 75This option takes a number argument. 76 Process all files with the date suffix less or equal to value of this 77 option. Defaults to today minus one day (Use @code{date -u +%Y%m%d}) 78 to get the timestamp. 79@node summary output-directory 80@subsection output-directory option 81@cindex summary-output-directory 82 83This is the ``output directory'' option. 84This option takes a str argument. 85 The output directory @code{summary} will write all output files to. 86@node summary start-date 87@subsection start-date option 88@cindex summary-start-date 89 90This is the ``start date'' option. 91This option takes a num argument. 92 Process all files with the date suffix more or equal to value of 93 this option. Defaults to 197000101. 94@node summary exit status 95@subsection summary exit status 96 97One of the following exit values will be returned: 98@table @samp 99@item 0 (EXIT_SUCCESS) 100Successful program execution. 101@item 1 (EXIT_FAILURE) 102The operation failed or the command syntax was not valid. 103@end table 104