Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-13 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:01:34AM -0400, Weary1 wrote: > BTW... This is far from important, but I'm curious: Sometimes, but ONLY > sometimes, when I issue a "chronyc sources -v" command, the response > hesitates significantly (up to several seconds) at one or more points in the > server list, as

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-12 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 10:31:30AM -0400, Weary1 wrote: > On 03/12/2015 07:36 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > > > >Please note that the initstepslew directive works only with sources > >that are available/resolvable when chronyd is started. It is mainly > >useful when chronyd should block boot until

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-12 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:58:34AM -0400, Weary1 wrote: > On 03/12/2015 06:04 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > > > [snip] > > > >One workaround is to specify the servers with IP addresses instead of > >names. > > I've been using the fully-qualified host names for two main reasons: > > 1. - Those

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-12 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 07:18:26AM -0400, Weary1 wrote: > >>We... There is one other complicating factor, which *MAY* have had > >>a hand in the server's System Clock getting so far out of whack, and which I > >>didn't mention earlier: > > > >How it happened does not really matter. It happ

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-12 Thread Miroslav Lichvar
On Wed, Mar 11, 2015 at 04:31:59PM -0400, Weary1 wrote: > Upon re-booting either system, chrony remains "offline", with no hosts > listed in response to a "chronyc sources -v" command. This is despite the > fact that both systems are on a full-time (DSL) internet connection. I > strongly suspect

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-12 Thread Weary1
On 03/12/2015 10:16 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 09:58:34AM -0400, Weary1 wrote: I've been using the fully-qualified host names for two main reasons: 1. - Those servers (and the networks they're hung off of) are not under my control. So what happens if/when their IP a

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-12 Thread Weary1
On 03/12/2015 07:36 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: Please note that the initstepslew directive works only with sources that are available/resolvable when chronyd is started. It is mainly useful when chronyd should block boot until the clock is set. OK, tell me more about this, particularly about

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-12 Thread Weary1
On 03/12/2015 07:51 AM, Weary1 wrote: [snip] So which is the *better* (if perhaps not "bigger") hammer: "makestep" or "initstepslew"? IOW, which of them should I put into chrony.conf? OK, I have (tentatively) added the following two entries in the server's "chrony.conf": # Added 3/

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-12 Thread Weary1
On 03/12/2015 06:04 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: [snip] One workaround is to specify the servers with IP addresses instead of names. I've been using the fully-qualified host names for two main reasons: 1. - Those servers (and the networks they're hung off of) are not under my control.

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-12 Thread Weary1
On 03/12/2015 06:04 AM, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: Is there a DNS server listed in /etc/resolv.conf before the network is configured? Well, I can only look at it *after* the system is fully up & running. But unless the system changes that file on-the-fly during the start-up process, the answer

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-12 Thread Weary1
On 03/11/2015 07:16 PM, Bill Unruh wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Weary1 wrote: [snip] The latter looks like the place to put the "invoke-rc.d chrony restart" command. But I've no idea of the syntax needed. Will simply inserting that command line before the "exit 0" (which is currently th

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-11 Thread Weary1
On 03/11/2015 05:21 PM, Bill Unruh wrote: [snip] You could also put a command into say rc.local to do the same thing. I am not sure of the Debian startup script, and whether you can easily make sure that chrony starts after the network has come up. Under systemd you can put in a dependenc

[chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-11 Thread Weary1
Hi Folks -- New subscriber here. This is my first post to the list. I've been using chrony for more years than I can remember. And for most of that time, it has worked flawlessly. However, after shuffling some hardware about over the past few months, I've come up against two problems. One

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-11 Thread Bill Unruh
On Wed, 11 Mar 2015, Weary1 wrote: On 03/11/2015 05:21 PM, Bill Unruh wrote: [snip] You could also put a command into say rc.local to do the same thing. I am not sure of the Debian startup script, and whether you can easily make sure that chrony starts after the network has come up. U

Re: [chrony-users] Two Issues

2015-03-11 Thread Bill Unruh
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