This document describes the use of the NTP Project's plot_summary program.
This document applies to version 4.3.63 of plot_summary.
This section was generated by AutoGen,
using the agtexi-cmd template and the option descriptions for the plot_summary program.
This is the automatically generated usage text for plot_summary.
The text printed is the same whether selected with the help option
(--help) or the more-help option (--more-help). more-help will print
the usage text by passing it through a pager program.
more-help is disabled on platforms without a working
fork(2) function. The PAGER environment variable is
used to select the program, defaulting to more. Both will exit
with a status code of 0.
plot_summary - plot statistics generated by summary script - Ver. 4.3.63
USAGE: plot_summary [ -<flag> [<val>] | --<name>[{=| }<val>] ]...
--directory=str Where the summary files are
--identifier=str Origin of the data
--offset-limit=float Limit of absolute offset
--peer=str Peers to generate plots for
- may appear multiple times
--plot-term=str Gnuplot terminal
--output-file=str Output file
--dont-wait Don't wait for keystroke between plots
-?, --help Display usage information and exit
--more-help Pass the extended usage text through a pager
Options are specified by doubled hyphens and their name or by a single
hyphen and the flag character.
This is the “where the summary files are” option.
This option takes a string argument.
The directory where the plot_summary will search for the
*_summary files generated by summary script.
This is the “origin of the data” option. This option takes a string argument. Where does the plotted data come from, default to string "host" plus current hostname
This is the “peers to generate plots for” option. This option takes a string argument.
This option has some usage constraints. It:
By default the peer_summary plots are not generated. Use this option to specify list of peers if you want to generate plots for them.
This is the “gnuplot terminal” option.
This option takes a string argument.
This is string is passed directly to the gnuplot set terminal
command. Default is x11 if DISPLAY is set and
dumb is it's not'. See output from -e "set
terminal") for the list of avalaible options.
This is the “output file” option.
This option takes a str argument.
Output file for gnuplot, default to stdout.
One of the following exit values will be returned: