Re: Speaking of ntp, yes CD-R does mess with the clock!
On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 09:44:23AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Rob Weir wrote:
> >
> > > On Tue, Dec 24, 2002 at 06:36:22AM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote:
> > > > On 24 Dec 2002, John Hasler wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Bill Moseley writes:
> > > > > > I just don't think it unreasonable that there could be periods of time
> > > > > > when ntp can't connect to the remote hosts -- and that should not stop
> > > > > > ntp.
> > > > >
> > > > > Chrony is designed to work with intermittent connections.
> > > >
> > > > Any idea why it conflicts with ntpdate? Installing it remvoed ntpdate.
> > > > ntp didn't conflict with ntpdate.
> > >
> > > No idea...chrony is a lot smarter than ntpdate though; it gradually
> > > moves your clock back and forth so that running apps don't get confused,
> > > as well as tracking how inaccurate your hardware RTC is, and fixing it
> > > while it drifts. Overall, a very cool tool.
> >
> > Maybe I missed this in the docs, but I didn't see that it updates the
> > hwclock during normal execution. It can be made to update the hwclock
> > (the example they give is in a ppp-down.d script), but in my case the
> > machine boots and ppp comes up and the only time it goes down has been a
> > power failure. So pp-down.d scripts are not called.
> >
> > Did I miss something?
>
> As John Hasler recently pointed out, add 'trimrtc' to
> /etc/chrony/chrony.conf.
trimrtc is a command for chronyc. It's not listed in the docs as a valid
chrony.conf option. If I try to add it to chrony.conf I get:
Dec 24 13:33:20 burn chronyd[1804]: Line 70 in configuration file
[/etc/chrony/chrony.conf] contains invalid command
I suppose it could be given as a command to chronyc in a cron script.
Running chrony package 1.14-7
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Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org
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