> On 31/07/2017, at 8:32 PM, Miroslav Lichvar <mlich...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2017 at 05:08:33PM +1200, Bryan Christianson wrote:
>> I was just looking at using the -q option before actually running the daemon.
> 
> Have you considered using the initstepslew directive? I'm assuming you
> want to delay starting something before chronyd has stepped the clock.

initstepslew should do what I want which is to step the clock if the initial 
offset exceeds a threshold. Thanks for that.
I'm having an issue with VirtualBox macOS VMs being about 5 seconds off when 
they start. They seem to take a long time to do the EFI boot and it looks as 
though the clock is stalled while that's going on.

>> It appears to be broken.
> 
>> Setting the option sets 
>>        clock_control = 0;
>> 
>> In SYS_Intialise(), only the null driver is loaded. The actual system 
>> drivers are not loaded.
>> 
> Good catch. Would you like to submit a patch?

I'm not sure what the patch would be. Only set  clock_control = 0  for -Q 
option but leave at 1 for -q ?

Bryan Christianson
br...@whatroute.net




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