On Saturday 08 January 2011 21:45:45 Dale wrote: > Now, with ntp, it logs to messages when it syncs, resets the clock > and such. Does chrony do this somewhere too? I have this in my > conf file: [...] > logdir /var/log/chrony
You need to uncomment the next line too - the one that specifies what to log. Remember that an exclamation mark is a comment marker in chrony.conf. > Do I have to create a file for it to log to as well? Nope. Just switch logging on, as above. If you have your syslog to output to VT12 you can read its log output there. In my case I use syslog-ng with the default config and VT12 switched on. > P. S. I wonder why ntp and openntp didn't work? Haven't a clue, but I do remember shuddering at the complexity of configuring ntp, years ago. From reading this thread I get the impression it hasn't improved much since then. Here's my chrony.conf, minus comments; gate.ethnet is my gateway box: server uk.pool.ntp.org server gate.ethnet maxupdateskew 10 driftfile /etc/chrony/chrony.drift keyfile /etc/chrony/chrony.keys commandkey 1 dumponexit dumpdir /var/log/chrony initstepslew 30 gate.ethnet logdir /var/log/chrony log measurements statistics tracking rtc allow 192.168.2/24 allow 192.168.3/24 allow 192.168.4/24 logchange 0.5 cmdallow 127.0.0.1 rtcfile /etc/chrony/chrony.rtc rtconutc Incidentally, chronyd logs a "cannot open" error the first time it tries to write to a log or dump file; it seems to be harmless. HTH. I'm delighted you got something working! -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.
