Yo Hal! On Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:55:34 -0700 Hal Murray <[email protected]> wrote:
> > This came up recently where someone wanted to get the time off an
> > NMEA feed for NTP. For NTP to work, the ppsthread has to be
> > started before privs are dropped. Micght also be a roblem opening
> > the chrony file.
>
> Can you solve the PPS problem with a command line option that says
> open it before dropping roots so it will be there if somebody
> connects?
I'm sure it is not that simple.
> Can you solve the chrony file problem with file permissions? (I
> haven't worked enough with that stuff to have a good feel for things
> like this.)
Chronyd creates that file and sets its permissions. Changing it
afterwards would be kludgy, and break all the howtos.
And after a lot of work, your time from a network NMEA stream will be
terrible.
Not something that interests me, but patches welcome.
I suspect the current issue could be delt with, and we just document that
time will be broken from that feed.
RGDS
GARY
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