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On Wednesday, 11 December 2019 04:59:08 GMT Walter Dnes wrote: |
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> On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 03:19:16AM -0600, Dale wrote |
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> > I think I used ntpdate years ago. Can't recall why I switched but |
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> > something wasn't working right. People here recommended chrony and once |
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> > set up, its worked ever since. OP, if you haven't tried it yet, may be |
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> > worth giving it a test run. |
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> Now what? I'm willing to RTFM, but I can't FTFM (Find the F****** |
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> Manual). |
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Have a look at: |
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man chronyd |
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It runs as a daemon. The command line utility to interefere with it is |
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detailed in: |
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man chronyc |
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Typically I set /etc/chrony/chrony.conf and run it as a default service. Upon |
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setting it up I run 'chronyc sources -v' a couple of times to make sure it is |
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working as desired. For laptops which are not online 24-7 it is worth adding |
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'iburst' after the address of a time server to allow the clock to adjust fast |
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at boot. Additional information can be found here: |
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$ ls -la /usr/share/doc/chrony-3.5-r2/ |
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total 72 |
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drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Nov 2 09:27 . |
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drwxr-xr-x 826 root root 36864 Dec 7 16:42 .. |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7942 Nov 2 09:27 FAQ.bz2 |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9844 Nov 2 09:27 NEWS.bz2 |
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3167 Nov 2 09:27 README.bz2 |
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drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 2 09:27 examples |
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HTH. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |