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tick

Description

The tick utility starts the tick process that sends periodic tick notification to the tim process, which in turn
handles protocol timers.

Syntax

tick_xxx [-v]

where xxx is operating system specific, lnx for Linux and sol for Solaris versions.

Command Line Options

The tick utility supports the following command line options:

-v
Show version information.

Example

The tick process is typically only started by forking a process using gctload by including the following line in
the system.txt file:

FORK_PROCESS ./tick_lnx