.TH CHRONYC 1 "@MAN_DATE@" "chrony @VERSION@" "User's Manual"
.SH NAME
chronyc \- command-line interface for chronyd

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B chronyc
[\fIOPTIONS\fR]

.SH DESCRIPTION
\fIchrony\fR is a pair of programs for maintaining the accuracy of computer
clocks.

\fBchronyc\fR is a command-line interface program which can be used to
monitor \fIchronyd\fR's performance and to change various operating
parameters whilst it is running.

.SH USAGE
A detailed description of all commands supported by \fBchronyc\fR is available
via the documentation supplied with the distribution (\fIchrony.txt\fR and
\fIchrony.texi\fR).

.SH OPTIONS
A summary of the options supported by \fBchronyc\fR is included below.

.TP
\fB\-h\fR \fIhostname\fR
specify hostname
.TP
\fB\-p\fR \fIport-number\fR
specify port-number
.TP
\fB\-n\fR
display raw IP addresses (don't attempt to look up hostnames)
.TP
\fB\-4\fR
resolve hostnames only to IPv4 addresses
.TP
\fB\-6\fR
resolve hostnames only to IPv6 addresses
.TP
\fB\-m\fR
allow multiple commands to be specified on the command line.  Each argument
will be interpreted as a whole command.
.TP
\fB\-f\fR \fIconf-file\fR
This option can be used to specify an alternate location for the
configuration file (default \fI@SYSCONFDIR@/chrony.conf\fR). The configuration file is
needed for the \fB-a\fR option.
.TP
\fB\-a\fR
With this option chronyc will try to authenticate automatically on
start. It will read the configuration file, read the command key from the
keyfile and run the authhash and password commands.
.TP
\fIcommand\fR
specify command.  If no command is given, chronyc will read commands
interactively.

.SH BUGS
To report bugs, please visit \fIhttp://chrony.tuxfamily.org\fR

.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR chronyd(8),
.BR chrony(1)

.I http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/

.SH AUTHOR
Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>

This man-page was written by Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> as part of "The Missing
Man Pages Project".  Please see \fIhttp://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/index.html\fR
for details.

The complete chrony documentation is supplied in texinfo format.