<tt><font size=2>> From: awilliam@redhat.com</font></tt>
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> On Wed, 2013-07-17 at 16:09 +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:<br>
> <br>
> > > e. Why isn't this functionality being added to chrony, rather
<br>
> than bouncing us back to ntpd?<br>
> > <br>
> > Which functionality exactly? Both ntpd and chronyd (in default<br>
> > configuration) let the kernel sync the RTC. <br>
> <br>
> The ability to invoke chronyd in a way that mimics ntpdate. This thread<br>
> has turned up that you can invoke *ntpd* in this way: ntpd -q -g -x.
But<br>
> no-one has yet provided an equivalent invocation for chronyd, and
I<br>
> could not figure one out from the manpage.<br>
> <br>
> Aside from anything else, anaconda requires something like this to
be<br>
> available in order to check whether an NTP server is valid and<br>
> available: a simple, one-off command which will 'return true' in some<br>
> obvious way if the specified server exists and responds correctly,
and<br>
> 'return false' if it doesn't. For now it is using ntpdate; I suppose
we<br>
> could switch it to ntpd, but it would make an awful lot more sense
if<br>
> chronyd could do this.<br>
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<br><tt><font size=2>I'm on the chrony mailing list if there's any questions
you would like forwarded.</font></tt>
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John Florian</font>
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