* Darac Marjal wrote on 2014-01-29 at 10:22 (+0000):
On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:06:13AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
When my system boots up it starts chronyd. The problem is
that it seems to not have (or find) a network connection at
the time, so it comes up in offline mode. If I restart it
then everything is fine. Otherwise, the box gradually loses
time. Since I rarely reboot my system I always forget that I
need to restart chronyd. What do I need to do to get it to
start up in online mode? Do I need to position it farther
down in /etc/rc2.d? I thought that I had changed it to run
AFTER network-manager, but, if so, something changed it back.
Chrony will put "offline" sources to "online" when a PPP link
comes up (any PPP link, bug #252131) but not when an ethernet
link comes up (bug #312092).
If you like, there are instructions and a patch in bug #389961
to fix this.
Yes, but expect some tricky fiddling :-)
However, comparing the bug history - some of chrony's ones
haven't been handled or closed for 5+ years, also the relevant
ones here - and the number of users of chrony (847) and openntpd
(1902), I strongly suggest you considering a switch to the
openntpd package.