Re: how to force chronyd to be online after booting

2014-10-07 Thread lee
Dieter Deyke dieter.de...@gmail.com writes: On 09/26/2014 06:31 PM, lee wrote: is there an easy way to force chronyd to get into/remain in its online mode rather than going into offline mode? I had the same problem. My workaround was to run the following python script from /etc/cron.hourly/

Re: how to force chronyd to be online after booting

2014-10-07 Thread lee
Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net writes: On 09/27/2014 07:17 AM, lee wrote: Hm, you don't use UPSs? :-) It's a long story. I'll make it short: I'm in Haiti. Grid power is an iffy proposition. :-) So we have to have heavy backups. That means generators and large inverters. There is

Re: how to force chronyd to be online after booting

2014-09-28 Thread Dieter Deyke
On 09/26/2014 06:31 PM, lee wrote: is there an easy way to force chronyd to get into/remain in its online mode rather than going into offline mode? I had the same problem. My workaround was to run the following python script from /etc/cron.hourly/ #! /usr/bin/env python import os import time

Re: how to force chronyd to be online after booting

2014-09-27 Thread lee
Philippe Clérié phili...@gcal.net writes: On 09/26/2014 06:31 PM, lee wrote: So is there some simple way to just force chronyd to remain online? I think when there isn't an option for this, I'll just replace it with ntpd ... I'd like to second that question. I've used chronyd for a

Re: how to force chronyd to be online after booting

2014-09-27 Thread Philippe Clérié
On 09/27/2014 07:17 AM, lee wrote: Hm, you don't use UPSs? :-) It's a long story. I'll make it short: I'm in Haiti. Grid power is an iffy proposition. :-) So we have to have heavy backups. That means generators and large inverters. There is always a slight delay when switching to

Re: how to force chronyd to be online after booting

2014-09-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Philippe Clérié wrote: On 09/27/2014 07:17 AM, lee wrote: Hm, you don't use UPSs? :-) It's a long story. I'll make it short: I'm in Haiti. Grid power is an iffy proposition. :-) So we have to have heavy backups. That means generators and large inverters. There is always a slight delay

how to force chronyd to be online after booting

2014-09-26 Thread lee
Hi, is there an easy way to force chronyd to get into/remain in its online mode rather than going into offline mode? So far, the documentation I found says it'll go and remain offline when it can't reach a server. When that happens, it can only be put into online mode via chronyc. The startup

Re: how to force chronyd to be online after booting

2014-09-26 Thread Philippe Clérié
On 09/26/2014 06:31 PM, lee wrote: Hi, is there an easy way to force chronyd to get into/remain in its online mode rather than going into offline mode? So far, the documentation I found says it'll go and remain offline when it can't reach a server. When that happens, it can only be put into