{
    "mode": "man",
    "parameter": "ntpdc",
    "section": "1",
    "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ntpdc/1/json",
    "generated": "2026-06-14T15:04:05Z",
    "synopsis": "ntpdc [-flags] [-flag [value]] [--option-name[[=| ]value]] [ host ...]",
    "sections": {
        "NAME": {
            "content": "ntpdc — vendor-specific NTPD control program\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SYNOPSIS": {
            "content": "ntpdc [-flags] [-flag [value]] [--option-name[[=| ]value]] [ host ...]\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "DESCRIPTION": {
            "content": "ntpdc is deprecated.  Please use ntpq(1) instead - it can do everything ntpdc used to do, and\nit does so using a much more sane interface.\n\nntpdc is a utility program used to query ntpd(8) about its current state and to request changes\nin that state.  It uses NTP mode 7 control message formats described in the source code.  The\nprogram may be run either in interactive mode or controlled using command line arguments.  Ex‐\ntensive state and statistics information is available through the ntpdc interface.  In addi‐\ntion, nearly all the configuration options which can be specified at startup using ntpd's con‐\nfiguration file may also be specified at run time using ntpdc.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "OPTIONS": {
            "content": "",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "-4 --ipv4",
                    "content": "Force IPv4 DNS name resolution.  This option must not appear in combination with any of\nthe following options: ipv6.\n\nForce DNS resolution of following host names on the command line to the IPv4 namespace.\n",
                    "flag": "-4",
                    "long": "--ipv4"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-6 --ipv6",
                    "content": "Force IPv6 DNS name resolution.  This option must not appear in combination with any of\nthe following options: ipv4.\n\nForce DNS resolution of following host names on the command line to the IPv6 namespace.\n",
                    "flag": "-6",
                    "long": "--ipv6"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-c --command",
                    "content": "run a command and exit.  This option may appear an unlimited number of times.\n\nThe following argument is interpreted as an interactive format command and is added to\nthe list of commands to be executed on the specified host(s).\n",
                    "flag": "-c",
                    "long": "--command"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-d --debug-level",
                    "content": "Increase debug verbosity level.  This option may appear an unlimited number of times.\n\n",
                    "flag": "-d",
                    "long": "--debug-level"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-D --set-debug-level",
                    "content": "Set the debug verbosity level.  This option may appear an unlimited number of times.\nThis option takes an integer number as its argument.\n\n",
                    "flag": "-D",
                    "long": "--set-debug-level"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-i --interactive",
                    "content": "Force ntpq to operate in interactive mode.  This option must not appear in combination\nwith any of the following options: command, listpeers, peers, showpeers.\n\nForce ntpq to operate in interactive mode.  Prompts will be written to the standard\noutput and commands read from the standard input.\n",
                    "flag": "-i",
                    "long": "--interactive"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-l --listpeers",
                    "content": "Print a list of the peers.  This option must not appear in combination with any of the\nfollowing options: command.\n\nPrint a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary of their state. This\nis equivalent to the 'listpeers' interactive command.\n",
                    "flag": "-l",
                    "long": "--listpeers"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-n --numeric",
                    "content": "numeric host addresses.\n\nOutput all host addresses in dotted-quad numeric format rather than converting to the\ncanonical host names.\n",
                    "flag": "-n",
                    "long": "--numeric"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-p --peers",
                    "content": "Print a list of the peers.  This option must not appear in combination with any of the\nfollowing options: command.\n\nPrint a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary of their state. This\nis equivalent to the 'peers' interactive command.\n",
                    "flag": "-p",
                    "long": "--peers"
                },
                {
                    "name": "-s --showpeers",
                    "content": "Show a list of the peers.  This option must not appear in combination with any of the\nfollowing options: command.\n\nPrint a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary of their state. This\nis equivalent to the 'dmpeers' interactive command.\n\n-?, --help\nDisplay usage information and exit.\n\n-!, --more-help\nPass the extended usage information through a pager.\n\n-> [cfgfile], --save-opts [=cfgfile]\nSave the option state to cfgfile.  The default is the last configuration file listed in\nthe OPTION PRESETS section, below.  The command will exit after updating the config\nfile.\n\n-< cfgfile, --load-opts=cfgfile, --no-load-opts\nLoad options from cfgfile.  The no-load-opts form will disable the loading of earlier\nconfig/rc/ini files.  --no-load-opts is handled early, out of order.\n\n--version [{v|c|n}]\nOutput version of program and exit.  The default mode is `v', a simple version.  The\n`c' mode will print copyright information and `n' will print the full copyright notice.\n",
                    "flag": "-s",
                    "long": "--showpeers"
                }
            ]
        },
        "OPTION PRESETS": {
            "content": "Any option that is not marked as not presettable may be preset by loading values from configu‐\nration (\"RC\" or \".INI\") file(s) and values from environment variables named:\nNTPDC<option-name> or NTPDC\nThe  environmental  presets take precedence (are processed later than) the configuration files.\nThe homerc files are \"$HOME\", and \".\".  If any of these are directories, then the  file  .ntprc\nis searched for within those directories.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "USAGE": {
            "content": "If one or more request options are included on the command line when ntpdc is executed, each of\nthe requests will be sent to the NTP servers running on each of the hosts given as command line\narguments, or on localhost by default.  If no request options are given, ntpdc will attempt to\nread commands from the standard input and execute these on the NTP server running on the first\nhost given on the command line, again defaulting to localhost when no other host is specified.\nThe ntpdc utility will prompt for commands if the standard input is a terminal device.\n\nThe ntpdc utility uses NTP mode 7 packets to communicate with the NTP server, and hence can be\nused to query any compatible server on the network which permits it.  Note that since NTP is a\nUDP protocol this communication will be somewhat unreliable, especially over large distances in\nterms of network topology.  The ntpdc utility makes no attempt to retransmit requests, and will\ntime requests out if the remote host is not heard from within a suitable timeout time.\n\nThe operation of ntpdc are specific to the particular implementation of the ntpd(8) daemon and\ncan be expected to work only with this and maybe some previous versions of the daemon.  Re‐\nquests from a remote ntpdc utility which affect the state of the local server must be authenti‐\ncated, which requires both the remote program and local server share a common key and key iden‐\ntifier.\n\nNote that in contexts where a host name is expected, a -4 qualifier preceding the host name\nforces DNS resolution to the IPv4 namespace, while a -6 qualifier forces DNS resolution to the\nIPv6 namespace.  Specifying a command line option other than -i or -n will cause the specified\nquery (queries) to be sent to the indicated host(s) immediately.  Otherwise, ntpdc will attempt\nto read interactive format commands from the standard input.\n",
            "subsections": [
                {
                    "name": "Interactive Commands",
                    "content": "Interactive format commands consist of a keyword followed by zero to four arguments.  Only\nenough characters of the full keyword to uniquely identify the command need be typed.  The out‐\nput of a command is normally sent to the standard output, but optionally the output of individ‐\nual commands may be sent to a file by appending a ‘>’, followed by a file name, to the command\nline.\n\nA number of interactive format commands are executed entirely within the ntpdc utility itself\nand do not result in NTP mode 7 requests being sent to a server.  These are described follow‐\ning.\n\n? commandkeyword\n\nhelp commandkeyword\nA ‘?’ will print a list of all the command keywords known to this incarnation of ntpdc.\nA ‘?’ followed by a command keyword will print function and usage information about the\ncommand.  This command is probably a better source of information about ntpq(1) than\nthis manual page.\n\ndelay milliseconds\nSpecify a time interval to be added to timestamps included in requests which require\nauthentication.  This is used to enable (unreliable) server reconfiguration over long\ndelay network paths or between machines whose clocks are unsynchronized.  Actually the\nserver does not now require timestamps in authenticated requests, so this command may\nbe obsolete.\n\nhost hostname\nSet the host to which future queries will be sent.  Hostname may be either a host name\nor a numeric address.\n\nhostnames [yes | no]\nIf yes is specified, host names are printed in information displays.  If no is speci‐\nfied, numeric addresses are printed instead.  The default is yes, unless modified using\nthe command line -n switch.\n\nkeyid keyid\nThis command allows the specification of a key number to be used to authenticate con‐\nfiguration requests.  This must correspond to a key number the server has been config‐\nured to use for this purpose.\n\nquit    Exit ntpdc.\n\npasswd  This command prompts you to type in a password (which will not be echoed) which will be\nused to authenticate configuration requests.  The password must correspond to the key\nconfigured for use by the NTP server for this purpose if such requests are to be suc‐\ncessful.\n\ntimeout milliseconds\nSpecify a timeout period for responses to server queries.  The default is about 8000\nmilliseconds.  Note that since ntpdc retries each query once after a timeout, the total\nwaiting time for a timeout will be twice the timeout value set.\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Control Message Commands",
                    "content": "Query commands result in NTP mode 7 packets containing requests for information being sent to\nthe server.  These are read-only commands in that they make no modification of the server con‐\nfiguration state.\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "listpeers",
                    "content": "Obtains and prints a brief list of the peers for which the server is maintaining state.\nThese should include all configured peer associations as well as those peers whose\nstratum is such that they are considered by the server to be possible future synchro‐\nnization candidates.\n\npeers   Obtains a list of peers for which the server is maintaining state, along with a summary\nof that state.  Summary information includes the address of the remote peer, the local\ninterface address (0.0.0.0 if a local address has yet to be determined), the stratum of\nthe remote peer (a stratum of 16 indicates the remote peer is unsynchronized), the\npolling interval, in seconds, the reachability register, in octal, and the current es‐\ntimated delay, offset and dispersion of the peer, all in seconds.\n\nThe character in the left margin indicates the mode this peer entry is operating in.  A\n‘+’ denotes symmetric active, a ‘-’ indicates symmetric passive, a ‘=’ means the remote\nserver is being polled in client mode, a ‘^’ indicates that the server is broadcasting\nto this address, a ‘~’ denotes that the remote peer is sending broadcasts and a ‘~’ de‐\nnotes that the remote peer is sending broadcasts and a ‘*’ marks the peer the server is\ncurrently synchronizing to.\n\nThe contents of the host field may be one of four forms.  It may be a host name, an IP\naddress, a reference clock implementation name with its parameter or\nREFCLK(implementationnumber, parameter).  On hostnames no only IP-addresses will be\ndisplayed.\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "dmpeers",
                    "content": "A slightly different peer summary list.  Identical to the output of the peers command,\nexcept for the character in the leftmost column.  Characters only appear beside peers\nwhich were included in the final stage of the clock selection algorithm.  A ‘.’ indi‐\ncates that this peer was cast off in the falseticker detection, while a ‘+’ indicates\nthat the peer made it through.  A ‘*’ denotes the peer the server is currently synchro‐\nnizing with.\n\nshowpeer peeraddress [...]\nShows a detailed display of the current peer variables for one or more peers.  Most of\nthese values are described in the NTP Version 2 specification.\n\npstats peeraddress [...]\nShow per-peer statistic counters associated with the specified peer(s).\n\nclockstat clockpeeraddress [...]\nObtain and print information concerning a peer clock.  The values obtained provide in‐\nformation on the setting of fudge factors and other clock performance information.\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "kerninfo",
                    "content": "Obtain and print kernel phase-lock loop operating parameters.  This information is\navailable only if the kernel has been specially modified for a precision timekeeping\nfunction.\n\nloopinfo [oneline | multiline]\nPrint the values of selected loop filter variables.  The loop filter is the part of NTP\nwhich deals with adjusting the local system clock.  The ‘offset’ is the last offset\ngiven to the loop filter by the packet processing code.  The ‘frequency’ is the fre‐\nquency error of the local clock in parts-per-million (ppm).  The ‘timeconst’ controls\nthe stiffness of the phase-lock loop and thus the speed at which it can adapt to oscil‐\nlator drift.  The ‘watchdog timer’ value is the number of seconds which have elapsed\nsince the last sample offset was given to the loop filter.  The oneline and multiline\noptions specify the format in which this information is to be printed, with multiline\nas the default.\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "sysinfo",
                    "content": "Print a variety of system state variables, i.e., state related to the local server.\nAll except the last four lines are described in the NTP Version 3 specification,\nRFC-1305.\n\nThe ‘system flags’ show various system flags, some of which can be set and cleared by\nthe enable and disable configuration commands, respectively.  These are the auth,\nbclient, monitor, pll, pps and stats flags.  See the ntpd(8) documentation for the\nmeaning of these flags.  There are two additional flags which are read only, the\nkernelpll and kernelpps.  These flags indicate the synchronization status when the\nprecision time kernel modifications are in use.  The ‘kernelpll’ indicates that the\nlocal clock is being disciplined by the kernel, while the ‘kernelpps’ indicates the\nkernel discipline is provided by the PPS signal.\n\nThe ‘stability’ is the residual frequency error remaining after the system frequency\ncorrection is applied and is intended for maintenance and debugging.  In most architec‐\ntures, this value will initially decrease from as high as 500 ppm to a nominal value in\nthe range .01 to 0.1 ppm.  If it remains high for some time after starting the daemon,\nsomething may be wrong with the local clock, or the value of the kernel variable\nkern.clockrate.tick may be incorrect.\n\nThe ‘broadcastdelay’ shows the default broadcast delay, as set by the broadcastdelay\nconfiguration command.\n\nThe ‘authdelay’ shows the default authentication delay, as set by the authdelay config‐\nuration command.\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "sysstats",
                    "content": "Print statistics counters maintained in the protocol module.\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "memstats",
                    "content": "Print statistics counters related to memory allocation code.\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "iostats",
                    "content": "Print statistics counters maintained in the input-output module.\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "timerstats",
                    "content": "Print statistics counters maintained in the timer/event queue support code.\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "reslist",
                    "content": "Obtain and print the server's restriction list.  This list is (usually) printed in\nsorted order and may help to understand how the restrictions are applied.\n\nmonlist [version]\nObtain and print traffic counts collected and maintained by the monitor facility.  The\nversion number should not normally need to be specified.\n\nclkbug clockpeeraddress [...]\nObtain debugging information for a reference clock driver.  This information is pro‐\nvided only by some clock drivers and is mostly undecodable without a copy of the driver\nsource in hand.\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Runtime Configuration Requests",
                    "content": "All requests which cause state changes in the server are authenticated by the server using a\nconfigured NTP key (the facility can also be disabled by the server by not configuring a key).\nThe key number and the corresponding key must also be made known to ntpdc.  This can be done\nusing the keyid and passwd commands, the latter of which will prompt at the terminal for a\npassword to use as the encryption key.  You will also be prompted automatically for both the\nkey number and password the first time a command which would result in an authenticated request\nto the server is given.  Authentication not only provides verification that the requester has\npermission to make such changes, but also gives an extra degree of protection again transmis‐\nsion errors.\n\nAuthenticated requests always include a timestamp in the packet data, which is included in the\ncomputation of the authentication code.  This timestamp is compared by the server to its re‐\nceive time stamp.  If they differ by more than a small amount the request is rejected.  This is\ndone for two reasons.  First, it makes simple replay attacks on the server, by someone who\nmight be able to overhear traffic on your LAN, much more difficult.  Second, it makes it more\ndifficult to request configuration changes to your server from topologically remote hosts.\nWhile the reconfiguration facility will work well with a server on the local host, and may work\nadequately between time-synchronized hosts on the same LAN, it will work very poorly for more\ndistant hosts.  As such, if reasonable passwords are chosen, care is taken in the distribution\nand protection of keys and appropriate source address restrictions are applied, the run time\nreconfiguration facility should provide an adequate level of security.\n\nThe following commands all make authenticated requests.\n\naddpeer peeraddress [keyid] [version] [prefer]\nAdd a configured peer association at the given address and operating in symmetric ac‐\ntive mode.  Note that an existing association with the same peer may be deleted when\nthis command is executed, or may simply be converted to conform to the new configura‐\ntion, as appropriate.  If the optional keyid is a nonzero integer, all outgoing packets\nto the remote server will have an authentication field attached encrypted with this\nkey.  If the value is 0 (or not given) no authentication will be done.  The version can\nbe 1, 2 or 3 and defaults to 3.  The prefer keyword indicates a preferred peer (and\nthus will be used primarily for clock synchronisation if possible).  The preferred peer\nalso determines the validity of the PPS signal - if the preferred peer is suitable for\nsynchronisation so is the PPS signal.\n\naddserver peeraddress [keyid] [version] [prefer]\nIdentical to the addpeer command, except that the operating mode is client.\n\nbroadcast peeraddress [keyid] [version] [prefer]\nIdentical to the addpeer command, except that the operating mode is broadcast.  In this\ncase a valid key identifier and key are required.  The peeraddress parameter can be\nthe broadcast address of the local network or a multicast group address assigned to\nNTP.  If a multicast address, a multicast-capable kernel is required.\n\nunconfig peeraddress [...]\nThis command causes the configured bit to be removed from the specified peer(s).  In\nmany cases this will cause the peer association to be deleted.  When appropriate, how‐\never, the association may persist in an unconfigured mode if the remote peer is willing\nto continue on in this fashion.\n\nfudge peeraddress [time1] [time2] [stratum] [refid]\nThis command provides a way to set certain data for a reference clock.  See the source\nlisting for further information.\n\nenable [auth | bclient | calibrate | kernel | monitor | ntp | pps | stats]\n\ndisable [auth | bclient | calibrate | kernel | monitor | ntp | pps | stats]\nThese commands operate in the same way as the enable and disable configuration file\ncommands of ntpd(8).\n\nauth    Enables the server to synchronize with unconfigured peers only if the peer has\nbeen correctly authenticated using either public key or private key cryptogra‐\nphy.  The default for this flag is enable.\n\nbclient\nEnables the server to listen for a message from a broadcast or multicast\nserver, as in the multicastclient command with default address.  The default\nfor this flag is disable.\n\ncalibrate\nEnables the calibrate feature for reference clocks.  The default for this flag\nis disable.\n\nkernel  Enables the kernel time discipline, if available.  The default for this flag is\nenable if support is available, otherwise disable.\n\nmonitor\nEnables the monitoring facility.  See the documentation here about the monlist\ncommand or further information.  The default for this flag is enable.\n\nntp     Enables time and frequency discipline.  In effect, this switch opens and closes\nthe feedback loop, which is useful for testing.  The default for this flag is\nenable.\n\npps     Enables the pulse-per-second (PPS) signal when frequency and time is disci‐\nplined by the precision time kernel modifications.  See the \"A Kernel Model for\nPrecision Timekeeping\" (available as part of the HTML documentation provided in\n/usr/share/doc/ntp) page for further information.  The default for this flag is\ndisable.\n\nstats   Enables the statistics facility.  See the Monitoring Options section of\nntp.conf(5) for further information.  The default for this flag is disable.\n\nrestrict address mask flag [...]\nThis command operates in the same way as the restrict configuration file commands of\nntpd(8).\n\nunrestrict address mask flag [...]\nUnrestrict the matching entry from the restrict list.\n\ndelrestrict address mask [ntpport]\nDelete the matching entry from the restrict list.\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "readkeys",
                    "content": "Causes the current set of authentication keys to be purged and a new set to be obtained\nby rereading the keys file (which must have been specified in the ntpd(8) configuration\nfile).  This allows encryption keys to be changed without restarting the server.\n\ntrustedkey keyid [...]\n\nuntrustedkey keyid [...]\nThese commands operate in the same way as the trustedkey and untrustedkey configuration\nfile commands of ntpd(8).\n"
                },
                {
                    "name": "authinfo",
                    "content": "Returns information concerning the authentication module, including known keys and\ncounts of encryptions and decryptions which have been done.\n\ntraps   Display the traps set in the server.  See the source listing for further information.\n\naddtrap address [port] [interface]\nSet a trap for asynchronous messages.  See the source listing for further information.\n\nclrtrap address [port] [interface]\nClear a trap for asynchronous messages.  See the source listing for further informa‐\ntion.\n\nreset   Clear the statistics counters in various modules of the server.  See the source listing\nfor further information.\n"
                }
            ]
        },
        "ENVIRONMENT": {
            "content": "See OPTION PRESETS for configuration environment variables.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "FILES": {
            "content": "See OPTION PRESETS for configuration files.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "EXIT STATUS": {
            "content": "One of the following exit values will be returned:\n\n0  (EXITSUCCESS)\nSuccessful program execution.\n\n1  (EXITFAILURE)\nThe operation failed or the command syntax was not valid.\n\n66  (EXNOINPUT)\nA specified configuration file could not be loaded.\n\n70  (EXSOFTWARE)\nlibopts had an internal operational error.  Please report it to auto‐\ngen-users@lists.sourceforge.net.  Thank you.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "SEE ALSO": {
            "content": "ntp.conf(5), ntpd(8)\n\nDavid L. Mills, Network Time Protocol (Version 3), RFC1305.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "AUTHORS": {
            "content": "The formatting directives in this document came from FreeBSD.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "COPYRIGHT": {
            "content": "Copyright (C) 1992-2020 The University of Delaware and Network Time Foundation all rights re‐\nserved.  This program is released under the terms of the NTP license, <http://ntp.org/license>.\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "BUGS": {
            "content": "The ntpdc utility is a crude hack.  Much of the information it shows is deadly boring and could\nonly be loved by its implementer.  The program was designed so that new (and temporary) fea‐\ntures were easy to hack in, at great expense to the program's ease of use.  Despite this, the\nprogram is occasionally useful.\n\nPlease report bugs to http://bugs.ntp.org .\n\nPlease send bug reports to: http://bugs.ntp.org, bugs@ntp.org\n",
            "subsections": []
        },
        "NOTES": {
            "content": "This manual page was AutoGen-erated from the ntpdc option definitions.\n\nBSD                              June 23 2020                              BSD",
            "subsections": []
        }
    },
    "summary": "ntpdc — vendor-specific NTPD control program",
    "flags": [
        {
            "flag": "-4",
            "long": "--ipv4",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Force IPv4 DNS name resolution. This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options: ipv6. Force DNS resolution of following host names on the command line to the IPv4 namespace."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-6",
            "long": "--ipv6",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Force IPv6 DNS name resolution. This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options: ipv4. Force DNS resolution of following host names on the command line to the IPv6 namespace."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-c",
            "long": "--command",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "run a command and exit. This option may appear an unlimited number of times. The following argument is interpreted as an interactive format command and is added to the list of commands to be executed on the specified host(s)."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-d",
            "long": "--debug-level",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Increase debug verbosity level. This option may appear an unlimited number of times."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-D",
            "long": "--set-debug-level",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Set the debug verbosity level. This option may appear an unlimited number of times. This option takes an integer number as its argument."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-i",
            "long": "--interactive",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Force ntpq to operate in interactive mode. This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options: command, listpeers, peers, showpeers. Force ntpq to operate in interactive mode. Prompts will be written to the standard output and commands read from the standard input."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-l",
            "long": "--listpeers",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Print a list of the peers. This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options: command. Print a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary of their state. This is equivalent to the 'listpeers' interactive command."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-n",
            "long": "--numeric",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "numeric host addresses. Output all host addresses in dotted-quad numeric format rather than converting to the canonical host names."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-p",
            "long": "--peers",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Print a list of the peers. This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options: command. Print a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary of their state. This is equivalent to the 'peers' interactive command."
        },
        {
            "flag": "-s",
            "long": "--showpeers",
            "arg": null,
            "description": "Show a list of the peers. This option must not appear in combination with any of the following options: command. Print a list of the peers known to the server as well as a summary of their state. This is equivalent to the 'dmpeers' interactive command. -?, --help Display usage information and exit. -!, --more-help Pass the extended usage information through a pager. -> [cfgfile], --save-opts [=cfgfile] Save the option state to cfgfile. The default is the last configuration file listed in the OPTION PRESETS section, below. The command will exit after updating the config file. -< cfgfile, --load-opts=cfgfile, --no-load-opts Load options from cfgfile. The no-load-opts form will disable the loading of earlier config/rc/ini files. --no-load-opts is handled early, out of order. --version [{v|c|n}] Output version of program and exit. The default mode is `v', a simple version. The `c' mode will print copyright information and `n' will print the full copyright notice."
        }
    ],
    "examples": [],
    "see_also": [
        {
            "name": "ntp.conf",
            "section": "5",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ntp.conf/5/json"
        },
        {
            "name": "ntpd",
            "section": "8",
            "url": "https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/ntpd/8/json"
        }
    ]
}