> From: awill...@redhat.com > > On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 16:09 +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > > > > e. Why isn't this functionality being added to chrony, rather > than bouncing us back to ntpd? > > > > Which functionality exactly? Both ntpd and chronyd (in default > > configuration) let the kernel sync the RTC. > > The ability to invoke chronyd in a way that mimics ntpdate. This thread > has turned up that you can invoke *ntpd* in this way: ntpd -q -g -x. But > no-one has yet provided an equivalent invocation for chronyd, and I > could not figure one out from the manpage. > > Aside from anything else, anaconda requires something like this to be > available in order to check whether an NTP server is valid and > available: a simple, one-off command which will 'return true' in some > obvious way if the specified server exists and responds correctly, and > 'return false' if it doesn't. For now it is using ntpdate; I suppose we > could switch it to ntpd, but it would make an awful lot more sense if > chronyd could do this.
I'm on the chrony mailing list if there's any questions you would like forwarded. -- John Florian
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