Michael writes:
> I beg to disagree because this bug seems to hit only some systems but not all.
> Of course I agree that this is bad if your system is hit, but with a lot of
> systm not being hit I do not consider this release critical.
> Aynway, the best solution is to fix this, if it is fixable on the chrony
> side at all.
I'm working on a fix (or at least a workaround) in the initscript. I'm
putting a subshell containing "sleep 5; kill `pidof chronyc'" in the
background just before launching chronyc. This should prevent hangs due to
chronyc being unable to contact chronyd. I intend to do likewise with the
netstat call as it has been reported to hang for minutes (unreproducible
here).
The new, as yet untested initscript is attached:
#! /bin/sh
#
# Written by Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
# Modified for Debian GNU/Linux by Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
# Modified for Debian by Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Modified for chrony by John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 1998-2008
### BEGIN INIT INFO
# Provides: time-daemon
# Required-Start: $local_fs
# Required-Stop: $local_fs
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-Description: Controls chronyd NTP time daemon
# Description: Chronyd is the NTP time daemon in the Chrony package
#
### END INIT INFO
PATH=/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
DAEMON=/usr/sbin/chronyd
FLAGS="defaults"
NAME="chronyd"
DESC="time daemon"
putonline ()
{ # Do we have a default route? If so put chronyd online.
(sleep 5; kill `pidof netstat` 2> /dev/null) &
if netstat -rn 2>/dev/null | grep UG | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | grep -q '0\.0\.0\.0'
then
KEY=$(awk '$1 ~ /^commandkey$/ { print $2; exit}' /etc/chrony/chrony.conf)
PASSWORD=`awk '$1 ~ /^'$KEY'$/ {print $2; exit}' /etc/chrony/chrony.keys`
# Make sure chronyc can't hang us up.
(sleep 5; kill `pidof chronyc` 2> /dev/null) &
/usr/bin/chronyc << EOF
password $PASSWORD
online
burst 5/10
quit
EOF
touch /var/run/chrony-ppp-up
fi
}
test -f $DAEMON || exit 0
case "$1" in
start)
start-stop-daemon --start --verbose --exec $DAEMON
/bin/pidof $DAEMON > /dev/null || sleep 1 # Chronyd can take a few milliseconds to start.
/bin/pidof $DAEMON > /dev/null || echo "$DAEMON failed to start." && exit 1
putonline
;;
stop)
start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --oknodo --exec $DAEMON
rm -f /var/run/chrony-ppp-up
;;
restart|force-reload)
echo -n "Restarting $DESC: "
start-stop-daemon --stop --quiet --exec $DAEMON
sleep 1
start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec $DAEMON -- -r
/bin/pidof $DAEMON > /dev/null || sleep 1 # Chronyd can take a few milliseconds to start.
/bin/pidof $DAEMON > /dev/null || echo "$DAEMON failed to restart." && exit 1
putonline
echo "$NAME."
;;
*)
echo "Usage: /etc/init.d/chrony {start|stop|restart|force-reload}"
exit 1
;;
esac
exit 0
--
John Hasler
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Elmwood, WI USA
