[gentoo-user] What's the position on Chrony?

[Peter Humphrey]

I want to run chrony on my servers for their smooth correction of system 
time. I have a few questions, however.

1.	Is chrony accurate on P4 and AMD chips? Is it really a useful improvement 
on ntpd? I remember from a few years ago that its developer used to have to 
change his code every time a new CPU chip appeared.

2.	Chrony doesn't like other programs interfering with its own control of 
the clock, so I want to remove both ntpd and clock from the startup 
process. This seems to cause a problem:

3.	How do I substitute chrony for ntp in gentoo's startup scripts? I can 
remove ntpd easily enough, but if I rc-update del clock it gets put back 
into the boot run-level on shutting down. If I then move /etc/init.d/clock 
out of the way and just touch a blank file in its place, I get this:

$ sudo /etc/init.d/chronyd restart
 * Caching service dependencies ...
 *  Can't find service 'clock' needed by 'syslog-ng';  continuing...                          
[ ok ]
 * Stopping chronyd ...                                                                       
[ ok ]
 * Starting chronyd ...                                                                       
[ ok ]

It looks as though the baselayout team are assuming too much; or should I 
just give in and revert to clock and ntpd? Perhaps it just isn't suitable 
for Gentoo - it wouldn't be the first time that an ebuild had appeared for 
a new package before it was ready.

-- 
Rgds
Peter
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