doc: convert manual from Texinfo to AsciiDoc

Split and convert the manual into four AsciiDoc documents, a document
about installation and three documents in the manpage type for
chrony.conf, chronyd and chronyc. The minimal man pages that were
maintained separately from the manual are replaced by full man pages
generated from AsciiDoc. Info files will no longer be provided.

Some parts of the manual are rewritten, updated or trimmed. The
introduction chapter is partially merged with README. The chapter about
typical operating scenarios is included in the chrony.conf man page.
This commit is contained in:
Miroslav Lichvar 2016-03-07 10:43:52 +01:00
parent 5828426977
commit 74afffed0c
12 changed files with 3584 additions and 5570 deletions

View file

@ -24,9 +24,6 @@
SYSCONFDIR=@SYSCONFDIR@
BINDIR=@BINDIR@
SBINDIR=@SBINDIR@
MANDIR=@MANDIR@
INFODIR=@INFODIR@
DOCDIR=@DOCDIR@
LOCALSTATEDIR=@LOCALSTATEDIR@
CHRONYVARDIR=@CHRONYVARDIR@
@ -75,10 +72,10 @@ $(HASH_OBJ) : $(patsubst %.o,%.c,$(HASH_OBJ))
distclean : clean
-rm -f .DS_Store
-rm -f Makefile
-rm -f chrony.conf.5 chrony.texi chronyc.1 chronyd.8
$(MAKE) -C doc distclean
clean :
-rm -f *.o *.s chronyc chronyd core *~ chrony.info chrony.html chrony.txt
-rm -f *.o *.s chronyc chronyd core *~
-rm -rf .deps
-rm -rf *.dSYM
@ -96,9 +93,6 @@ install: chronyd chronyc
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(SYSCONFDIR) ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(SYSCONFDIR)
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR) ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR)
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR) ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1 ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5 ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8 ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(CHRONYVARDIR) ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(CHRONYVARDIR)
if [ -f $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR)/chronyd ]; then rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR)/chronyd ; fi
if [ -f $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/chronyc ]; then rm -f $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/chronyc ; fi
@ -106,12 +100,13 @@ install: chronyd chronyc
chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(SBINDIR)/chronyd
cp chronyc $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/chronyc
chmod 755 $(DESTDIR)$(BINDIR)/chronyc
cp chronyc.1 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1
chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1/chronyc.1
cp chronyd.8 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8
chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8/chronyd.8
cp chrony.conf.5 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5
chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5/chrony.conf.5
$(MAKE) -C doc install
docs :
$(MAKE) -C doc docs
install-docs :
$(MAKE) -C doc install-docs
%.o : %.c
$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(CPPFLAGS) -c $<
@ -123,28 +118,6 @@ check : chronyd chronyc
$(MAKE) -C test/unit check
cd test/simulation && ./run
install-docs : docs
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR) ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)
cp chrony.txt $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)/chrony.txt
chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)/chrony.txt
cp chrony.html $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)/chrony.html
chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)/chrony.html
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(INFODIR) ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(INFODIR)
cp chrony.info* $(DESTDIR)$(INFODIR)
chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(INFODIR)/chrony.info*
docs : chrony.txt chrony.html chrony.info
chrony.txt : chrony.texi
makeinfo --no-headers --number-sections -o chrony.txt chrony.texi
chrony.html : chrony.texi
command -v texi2html > /dev/null 2>&1 && texi2html chrony.texi || \
makeinfo --no-split --html --number-sections -o chrony.html chrony.texi
chrony.info : chrony.texi
makeinfo chrony.texi
Makefile : Makefile.in configure
@echo
@echo Makefile needs to be regenerated, run ./configure

10
README
View file

@ -84,6 +84,12 @@ chrony-dev-request@chrony.tuxfamily.org
as applicable.
When you are reporting a bug, please send us all the information you can.
Unfortunately, chrony has proven to be one of those programs where it is very
difficult to reproduce bugs in a different environment. So we may have to
interact with you quite a lot to obtain enough extra logging and tracing to
pin-point the problem in some cases. Please be patient and plan for this!
License
=======
@ -105,6 +111,10 @@ Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@redhat.com>
Acknowledgements
================
In writing the chronyd program, extensive use has been made of RFC 1305
and RFC 5905, written by David Mills. The source code of the NTP reference
implementation has been used to check the details of the protocol.
The following people have provided patches and other major contributions
to the program :

View file

@ -1,67 +0,0 @@
.TH chrony.conf 5 "@MAN_DATE@" "chrony @VERSION@" "Configuration Files"
.SH NAME
chrony.conf \- chronyd configuration file
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B @SYSCONFDIR@/chrony.conf
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fIchrony\fR is a pair of programs for maintaining the accuracy of computer
clocks. \fIchronyd\fR is a background daemon program that can be started at
boot time.
Assuming that you have found some servers, you need to set up a
configuration file to run \fIchrony\fR. The (compiled-in) default location
for this file is \fB@SYSCONFDIR@/chrony.conf\fR. Assuming that your NTP
servers are called `foo.example.net', `bar.example.net' and `baz.example.net',
your \fBchrony.conf\fR file could contain as a minimum
.EX
server foo.example.net
server bar.example.net
server baz.example.net
.EE
However, you will probably want to include some of the other directives
described in detail in the documentation supplied with the distribution
(\fIchrony.txt\fR and \fIchrony.texi\fR). The following directives may be
particularly useful : `driftfile', `makestep', `rtcsync'. Also, the `iburst'
server option is useful to speed up the initial synchronization. The smallest
useful configuration file would look something like
.EX
server foo.example.net iburst
server bar.example.net iburst
server baz.example.net iburst
driftfile @CHRONYVARDIR@/drift
makestep 1.0 3
rtcsync
.EE
When using a pool of NTP servers (one name is used for multiple servers which
may change over time), it's better to specify them with the `pool' directive
instead of multiple `server' directives. The configuration file could in this
case look like
.EX
pool pool.ntp.org iburst
driftfile @CHRONYVARDIR@/drift
makestep 1.0 3
rtcsync
.EE
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR chronyc(1),
.BR chronyd(8)
.I http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/
.SH AUTHOR
Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
This man-page was written by Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> as part of "The Missing
Man Pages Project". Please see \fIhttp://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/index.html\fR
for details.
The complete chrony documentation is supplied in texinfo format.

File diff suppressed because it is too large Load diff

View file

@ -1,74 +0,0 @@
.TH CHRONYC 1 "@MAN_DATE@" "chrony @VERSION@" "User's Manual"
.SH NAME
chronyc \- command-line interface for chronyd
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B chronyc
[\fIOPTIONS\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fIchrony\fR is a pair of programs for maintaining the accuracy of computer
clocks.
\fBchronyc\fR is a command-line interface program which can be used to
monitor \fIchronyd\fR's performance and to change various operating
parameters whilst it is running.
.SH USAGE
A detailed description of all commands supported by \fBchronyc\fR is available
via the documentation supplied with the distribution (\fIchrony.txt\fR and
\fIchrony.texi\fR).
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of the options supported by \fBchronyc\fR is included below.
.TP
\fB\-h\fR \fIhostname\fR
specify hostname or comma-separated list of addresses
(default @CHRONYSOCKDIR@/chronyd.sock,127.0.0.1,::1)
.TP
\fB\-p\fR \fIport-number\fR
specify port-number
.TP
\fB\-n\fR
display raw IP addresses (don't attempt to look up hostnames)
.TP
\fB\-d\fR
print debugging messages (if compiled with debugging support)
.TP
\fB\-4\fR
resolve hostnames only to IPv4 addresses
.TP
\fB\-6\fR
resolve hostnames only to IPv6 addresses
.TP
\fB\-m\fR
allow multiple commands to be specified on the command line. Each argument
will be interpreted as a whole command.
.TP
\fB\-f\fR \fIconf-file\fR
this option is ignored and is provided only for compatibility.
.TP
\fB\-a\fR
this option is ignored and is provided only for compatibility.
.TP
\fIcommand\fR
specify command. If no command is given, chronyc will read commands
interactively.
.SH BUGS
To report bugs, please visit \fIhttp://chrony.tuxfamily.org\fR
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR chronyd(8)
.I http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/
.SH AUTHOR
Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
This man-page was written by Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> as part of "The Missing
Man Pages Project". Please see \fIhttp://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/index.html\fR
for details.
The complete chrony documentation is supplied in texinfo format.

View file

@ -1,166 +0,0 @@
.TH CHRONYD 8 "@MAN_DATE@" "chrony @VERSION@" "System Administration"
.SH NAME
chronyd \- chrony background daemon
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B chronyd
[\fIOPTIONS\fR] [\fIconfiguration commands\fR]
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fIchrony\fR is a pair of programs for maintaining the accuracy of computer
clocks. \fBchronyd\fR is a background daemon program that can be started at boot
time.
\fBchronyd\fR is a daemon which runs in background on the
system. It obtains measurements (e.g. via the network) of the
system's offset relative to other systems, and adjusts the system
time accordingly. For isolated systems, the user can periodically
enter the correct time by hand (using \fIchronyc\fR). In either case,
\fBchronyd\fR determines the rate at which the computer
gains or loses time, and compensates for this.
.SH USAGE
\fBchronyd\fR is usually started at boot-time and requires superuser
privileges.
If \fBchronyd\fR has been installed to its default location
\fI@SBINDIR@/chronyd\fR, starting it is simply a matter of entering the
command:
\fI@SBINDIR@/chronyd\fR
Information messages and warnings will be logged to syslog.
If no configuration commands are specified on the command line,
\fBchronyd\fR will read the commands from the configuration file
(default \fI@SYSCONFDIR@/chrony.conf\fR).
.SH OPTIONS
A summary of the options supported by \fBchronyd\fR is included below.
.TP
\fB\-P\fR \fIpriority\fR
On Linux, this option will select the SCHED_FIFO real-time scheduler at the
specified priority (which must be between 0 and 100). On Mac OS X, this
option must have either a value of 0 (the default) to disable the thread
time constraint policy or 1 for the policy to be enabled. Other systems do not
support this option.
.TP
.B \-m
This option will lock chronyd into RAM so that it will never be paged out.
This mode is only supported on Linux.
.TP
.B \-n
When run in this mode, the program will not detach itself from the
terminal.
.TP
.B \-d
When run in this mode, the program will not detach itself from the
terminal, and all messages will be sent to the terminal instead of
to syslog. When \fBchronyd\fR was compiled with debugging support,
this option can be used twice to print also debugging messages.
.TP
\fB\-f\fR \fIconf-file\fR
This option can be used to specify an alternate location for the
configuration file (default \fI@SYSCONFDIR@/chrony.conf\fR).
.TP
.B \-r
This option will reload sample histories for each of the servers being used.
These histories are created by using the \fIdump\fR command in \fIchronyc\fR,
or by setting the \fIdumponexit\fR directive in the configuration file. This
option is useful if you want to stop and restart \fBchronyd\fR briefly for any
reason, e.g. to install a new version. However, it should be used only on
systems where the kernel can maintain clock compensation whilst not under
\fBchronyd\fR's control (i.e. Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and Solaris).
.TP
.B \-R
When this option is used, the \fIinitstepslew\fR directive and the
\fImakestep\fR directive used with a positive limit will be ignored. This
option is useful when restarting \fBchronyd\fR and can be used in conjunction
with the \fB-r\fR option.
.TP
.B \-s
This option will set the system clock from the computer's real-time clock or
to the last modification time of the file specified by the \fIdriftfile\fR
directive. Real-time clocks are supported only on Linux.
If used in conjunction with the \fB-r\fR flag, \fBchronyd\fR will attempt
to preserve the old samples after setting the system clock from
the real time clock (RTC). This can be used to allow \fBchronyd\fR to
perform long term averaging of the gain or loss rate across system
reboots, and is useful for dial-up systems that are shut down when
not in use. For this to work well, it relies on \fBchronyd\fR having
been able to determine accurate statistics for the difference
between the RTC and system clock last time the computer was on.
If the last modification time of the drift file is later than the current time
and the RTC time, the system time will be set to it to restore the time when
\fBchronyd\fR was previously stopped. This is useful on computers that have no
RTC or the RTC is broken (e.g. it has no battery).
.TP
\fB\-u\fR \fIuser\fR
This option sets the name of the system user to which \fBchronyd\fR will switch
after start in order to drop root privileges. It overrides the \fBuser\fR
directive from the configuration file (default \fB@DEFAULT_USER@\fR).
On Linux, \fBchronyd\fR needs to be compiled with support for the \fBlibcap\fR
library. On Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and Solaris \fBchronyd\fR forks into two
processes. The child process retains root privileges, but can only perform a
very limited range of privileged system calls on behalf of the parent.
.TP
\fB\-F\fR \fIlevel\fR
This option configures a system call filter when \fBchronyd\fR is compiled with
support for the Linux secure computing (seccomp) facility. In level 1 the
process is killed when a forbidden system call is made, in level -1 the SYSSIG
signal is thrown instead and in level 0 the filter is disabled (default 0).
It's recommended to enable the filter only when it's known to work on the
version of the system where \fBchrony\fR is installed as the filter needs to
allow also system calls made from libraries that \fBchronyd\fR is using (e.g.
libc) and different versions or implementations of the libraries may make
different system calls. If the filter is missing some system call,
\fBchronyd\fR could be killed even in normal operation.
.TP
.B \-q
When run in this mode, chronyd will set the system clock once
and exit. It will not detach from the terminal.
.TP
.B \-Q
This option is similar to \fB\-q\fR, but it will only print the offset and
not correct the clock.
.TP
.B \-v
This option displays \fBchronyd\fR's version number to the terminal and exits
.TP
.B \-4
Resolve hostnames only to IPv4 addresses and create only IPv4 sockets.
.TP
.B \-6
Resolve hostnames only to IPv6 addresses and create only IPv6 sockets.
.SH FILES
\fI@SYSCONFDIR@/chrony.conf\fR
.SH BUGS
To report bugs, please visit \fIhttp://chrony.tuxfamily.org/\fR
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBchronyd\fR is documented in detail in the documentation supplied with the
distribution (\fIchrony.txt\fR and \fIchrony.texi\fR).
.BR chronyc(1),
.BR chrony.conf(5),
.BR hwclock(8),
.BR ntpd(8)
.I http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/
.SH AUTHOR
Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
This man-page was written by Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> as part
of "The Missing Man Pages Project". Please see
\fIhttp://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/index.html\fR for details.
The complete chrony documentation is supplied in texinfo format.

12
configure vendored
View file

@ -111,7 +111,6 @@ Fine tuning of the installation directories:
--bindir=DIR user executables [EPREFIX/bin]
--sbindir=DIR system admin executables [EPREFIX/sbin]
--datarootdir=DIR data root [PREFIX/share]
--infodir=DIR info documentation [DATAROOTDIR/info]
--mandir=DIR man documentation [DATAROOTDIR/man]
--docdir=DIR documentation root [DATAROOTDIR/doc/chrony]
--localstatedir=DIR modifiable single-machine data [/var]
@ -261,9 +260,6 @@ do
--datarootdir=* )
SETDATAROOTDIR=`echo $option | sed -e 's/^.*=//;'`
;;
--infodir=* )
SETINFODIR=`echo $option | sed -e 's/^.*=//;'`
;;
--mandir=* )
SETMANDIR=`echo $option | sed -e 's/^.*=//;'`
;;
@ -797,11 +793,6 @@ if [ "x$SETDATAROOTDIR" != "x" ]; then
DATAROOTDIR=$SETDATAROOTDIR
fi
INFODIR=${DATAROOTDIR}/info
if [ "x$SETINFODIR" != "x" ]; then
INFODIR=$SETINFODIR
fi
MANDIR=${DATAROOTDIR}/man
if [ "x$SETMANDIR" != "x" ]; then
MANDIR=$SETMANDIR
@ -848,7 +839,7 @@ fi
add_def CHRONY_VERSION "\"${CHRONY_VERSION}\""
for f in Makefile test/unit/Makefile chrony.conf.5 chrony.texi chronyc.1 chronyd.8
for f in Makefile doc/Makefile test/unit/Makefile
do
echo Creating $f
sed -e "s%@EXTRA_OBJECTS@%${EXTRA_OBJECTS}%;\
@ -867,7 +858,6 @@ do
s%@SBINDIR@%${SBINDIR}%;\
s%@DOCDIR@%${DOCDIR}%;\
s%@MANDIR@%${MANDIR}%;\
s%@INFODIR@%${INFODIR}%;\
s%@LOCALSTATEDIR@%${LOCALSTATEDIR}%;\
s%@CHRONYSOCKDIR@%${CHRONYSOCKDIR}%;\
s%@CHRONYVARDIR@%${CHRONYVARDIR}%;\

70
doc/Makefile.in Normal file
View file

@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
ADOC = asciidoctor
ADOC_FLAGS =
SED = sed
HTML_TO_TXT = w3m -dump -T text/html
MAN_FILES = chrony.conf.man chronyc.man chronyd.man
TXT_FILES = faq.txt installation.txt
HTML_FILES = $(MAN_FILES:%.man=%.html) $(TXT_FILES:%.txt=%.html)
MAN_IN_FILES = $(MAN_FILES:%.man=%.man.in)
SYSCONFDIR = @SYSCONFDIR@
BINDIR = @BINDIR@
SBINDIR = @SBINDIR@
MANDIR = @MANDIR@
DOCDIR = @DOCDIR@
CHRONYSOCKDIR = @CHRONYSOCKDIR@
CHRONYVARDIR = @CHRONYVARDIR@
CHRONY_VERSION = @CHRONY_VERSION@
DEFAULT_USER = @DEFAULT_USER@
DEFAULT_HWCLOCK_FILE = @DEFAULT_HWCLOCK_FILE@
SED_COMMANDS = "s%\@SYSCONFDIR\@%$(SYSCONFDIR)%g;\
s%\@BINDIR\@%$(BINDIR)%g;\
s%\@SBINDIR\@%$(SBINDIR)%g;\
s%\@CHRONY_VERSION\@%$(CHRONY_VERSION)%g;\
s%\@DEFAULT_HWCLOCK_FILE\@%$(DEFAULT_HWCLOCK_FILE)%g;\
s%\@DEFAULT_USER\@%$(DEFAULT_USER)%g;\
s%\@CHRONYSOCKDIR\@%$(CHRONYSOCKDIR)%g;\
s%\@CHRONYVARDIR\@%$(CHRONYVARDIR)%g;"
man: $(MAN_FILES) $(MAN_IN_FILES)
html: $(HTML_FILES)
txt: $(TXT_FILES)
docs: man html
%.html: %.adoc
$(ADOC) $(ADOC_FLAGS) -b html -o - $< | $(SED) -e $(SED_COMMANDS) > $@
%.man.in: %.adoc
$(ADOC) $(ADOC_FLAGS) -b manpage -o $@ $<
%.man: %.man.in
$(SED) -e $(SED_COMMANDS) < $< > $@
%.txt: %.html
$(HTML_TO_TXT) < $< > $@
install: $(MAN_FILES)
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1 ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5 ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8 ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8
cp chronyc.man $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1/chronyc.1
chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man1/chronyc.1
cp chronyd.man $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8/chronyd.8
chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man8/chronyd.8
cp chrony.conf.man $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5/chrony.conf.5
chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(MANDIR)/man5/chrony.conf.5
install-docs: $(HTML_FILES)
[ -d $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR) ] || mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)
for f in $(HTML_FILES); do \
cp $$f $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR); \
chmod 644 $(DESTDIR)$(DOCDIR)/$$f; \
done
clean: distclean
rm -f $(MAN_IN_FILES)
distclean:
rm -f $(MAN_FILES) $(TXT_FILES) $(HTML_FILES)

2020
doc/chrony.conf.adoc Normal file

File diff suppressed because it is too large Load diff

1121
doc/chronyc.adoc Normal file

File diff suppressed because it is too large Load diff

164
doc/chronyd.adoc Normal file
View file

@ -0,0 +1,164 @@
// This file is part of chrony
//
// Copyright (C) Richard P. Curnow 1997-2003
// Copyright (C) Miroslav Lichvar 2009-2016
//
// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
// published by the Free Software Foundation.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
// WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
// General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
// with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
// 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
= chronyd(8)
:doctype: manpage
:man manual: System Administration
:man source: chrony @CHRONY_VERSION@
== NAME
chronyd - chrony daemon
== SYNOPSIS
*chronyd* [_OPTION_]... [_DIRECTIVE_]...
== DESCRIPTION
*chronyd* is a daemon for synchronisation of the system clock. It can
synchronise the clock with NTP servers, reference clocks (e.g. a GPS receiver),
and manual input using wristwatch and keyboard via *chronyc*. It can also
operate as an NTPv4 (RFC 5905) server and peer to provide a time service to
other computers in the network.
If no configuration directives are specified on the command line, *chronyd*
will read them from a configuration file. The compiled-in default location of
the file is _@SYSCONFDIR@/chrony.conf_.
Information messages and warnings will be logged to syslog.
== OPTIONS
*-4*::
With this option hostnames will be resolved only to IPv4 addresses and only
IPv4 sockets will be created.
*-6*::
With this option hostnames will be resolved only to IPv6 addresses and only
IPv6 sockets will be created.
*-f* _file_::
This option can be used to specify an alternate location for the configuration
file (default _@SYSCONFDIR@/chrony.conf_).
*-n*::
When run in this mode, the program will not detach itself from the terminal.
*-d*::
When run in this mode, the program will not detach itself from the terminal,
and all messages will be sent to the terminal instead of to syslog. When
*chronyd* was compiled with debugging support, this option can be used twice to
print also debugging messages.
*-q*::
When run in this mode, *chronyd* will set the system clock once and exit. It
will not detach from the terminal.
*-Q*::
This option is similar to *-q*, but it will only print the offset without any
corrections of the clock.
*-r*::
This option will reload sample histories for each of the servers and refclocks
being used. These histories are created by using the
<<chronyc.adoc#dump,*dump*>> command in *chronyc*, or by setting the
<<chrony.conf.adoc#dumponexit,*dumponexit*>> directive in the configuration
file. This option is useful if you want to stop and restart *chronyd* briefly
for any reason, e.g. to install a new version. However, it should be used only
on systems where the kernel can maintain clock compensation whilst not under
*chronyd*'s control (i.e. Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and Solaris).
*-R*::
When this option is used, the <<chrony.conf.adoc#initstepslew,*initstepslew*>>
directive and the <<chrony.conf.adoc#makestep,*makestep*>> directive used with
a positive limit will be ignored. This option is useful when restarting
*chronyd* and can be used in conjunction with the *-r* option.
*-s*::
This option will set the system clock from the computer's real-time clock (RTC)
or to the last modification time of the file specified by the
<<chrony.conf.adoc#driftfile,*driftfile*>> directive. Real-time clocks are
supported only on Linux.
+
If used in conjunction with the *-r* flag, *chronyd* will attempt to preserve
the old samples after setting the system clock from the RTC. This can be used
to allow *chronyd* to perform long term averaging of the gain or loss rate
across system reboots, and is useful for systems with intermittent access to
network that are shut down when not in use. For this to work well, it relies
on *chronyd* having been able to determine accurate statistics for the
difference between the RTC and system clock last time the computer was on.
+
If the last modification time of the drift file is later than both the current
time and the RTC time, the system time will be set to it to restore the time
when *chronyd* was previously stopped. This is useful on computers that have no
RTC or the RTC is broken (e.g. it has no battery).
*-u* _user_::
This option sets the name of the system user to which *chronyd* will switch
after start in order to drop root privileges. It overrides the
<<chrony.conf.adoc#user,*user*>> directive (default _@DEFAULT_USER@_).
+
On Linux, *chronyd* needs to be compiled with support for the *libcap* library.
On Mac OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD and Solaris *chronyd* forks into two processes.
The child process retains root privileges, but can only perform a very limited
range of privileged system calls on behalf of the parent.
*-F* _level_::
This option configures a system call filter when *chronyd* is compiled with
support for the Linux secure computing (seccomp) facility. In level 1 the
process is killed when a forbidden system call is made, in level -1 the SYSSIG
signal is thrown instead and in level 0 the filter is disabled (default 0).
+
It's recommended to enable the filter only when it's known to work on the
version of the system where *chrony* is installed as the filter needs to allow
also system calls made from libraries that *chronyd* is using (e.g. libc) and
different versions or implementations of the libraries may make different
system calls. If the filter is missing some system call, *chronyd* could be
killed even in normal operation.
*-P* _priority_::
On Linux, this option will select the SCHED_FIFO real-time scheduler at the
specified priority (which must be between 0 and 100). On Mac OS X, this option
must have either a value of 0 (the default) to disable the thread time
constraint policy or 1 for the policy to be enabled. Other systems do not
support this option.
*-m*::
This option will lock *chronyd* into RAM so that it will never be paged out.
This mode is only supported on Linux.
*-v*::
With this option *chronyd* will print version number to the terminal and exit.
== FILES
_@SYSCONFDIR@/chrony.conf_
== SEE ALSO
<<chronyc.adoc#,*chronyc(1)*>>, <<chrony.conf.adoc#,*chrony.conf(5)*>>
== BUGS
For instructions on how to report bugs, please visit
http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/.
== AUTHORS
chrony was written by Richard Curnow, Miroslav Lichvar and others.

189
doc/installation.adoc Normal file
View file

@ -0,0 +1,189 @@
// This file is part of chrony
//
// Copyright (C) Richard P. Curnow 1997-2003
// Copyright (C) Miroslav Lichvar 2009-2016
//
// This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
// it under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
// published by the Free Software Foundation.
//
// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
// WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
// General Public License for more details.
//
// You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
// with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
// 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
= Installation
The software is distributed as source code which has to be compiled. The source
code is supplied in the form of a gzipped tar file, which unpacks to a
subdirectory identifying the name and version of the program.
After unpacking the source code, change directory into it, and type
----
./configure
----
This is a shell script that automatically determines the system type. There is
a single optional parameter, `--prefix` which indicates the directory tree
where the software should be installed. For example,
----
./configure --prefix=/opt/free
----
will install the `chronyd` daemon into `/opt/free/sbin` and the `chronyc`
control program into `/opt/free/bin`. The default value for the prefix is
`/usr/local`.
The configure script assumes you want to use gcc as your compiler. If you want
to use a different compiler, you can configure this way:
----
CC=cc CFLAGS=-O ./configure --prefix=/opt/free
----
for Bourne-family shells, or
----
setenv CC cc
setenv CFLAGS -O
./configure --prefix=/opt/free
----
for C-family shells.
If the software cannot (yet) be built on your system, an error message will be
shown. Otherwise, `Makefile` will be generated.
On Linux, if development files for the libcap library are available, `chronyd`
will be built with support for dropping root privileges. On other systems no
extra library is needed. The default user which `chronyd` should run as can be
specified with the `--with-user` option of the configure script.
If development files for the editline or readline library are available,
`chronyc` will be built with line editing support. If you don't want this,
specify the `--disable-readline` flag to configure.
If a `timepps.h` header is available (e.g. from the
http://linuxpps.org[LinuxPPS project]), `chronyd` will be built with PPS API
reference clock driver. If the header is installed in a location that isn't
normally searched by the compiler, you can add it to the searched locations by
setting the `CPPFLAGS` variable to `-I/path/to/timepps`.
Now type
----
make
----
to build the programs.
If you want to build the manual in HTML, type
----
make docs
----
Once the programs have been successfully compiled, they need to be installed in
their target locations. This step normally needs to be performed by the
superuser, and requires the following command to be entered.
----
make install
----
This will install the binaries and man pages.
To install the HTML version of the manual, enter the command
----
make install-docs
----
Now that the software is successfully installed, the next step is to set up a
configuration file. The default location of the file is _/etc/chrony.conf_.
Several examples of configuration with comments are included in the examples
directory. Suppose you want to use public NTP servers from the pool.ntp.org
project as your time reference. A minimal useful configuration file could be
----
pool pool.ntp.org iburst
makestep 1.0 3
rtcsync
----
Then, `chronyd` can be run. For security reasons, it's recommended to create an
unprivileged user for `chronyd` and specify it with the `-u` command-line
option or the `user` directive in the configuration file, or set the default
user with the `--with-user` configure option before building.
== Support for line editing libraries
`chronyc` can be built with support for line editing, this allows you to use
the cursor keys to replay and edit old commands. Two libraries are supported
which provide such functionality, editline and GNU readline.
Please note that readline since version 6.0 is licensed under GPLv3+ which is
incompatible with chrony's license GPLv2. You should use editline instead if
you don't want to use older readline versions.
The configure script will automatically enable the line editing support if one
of the supported libraries is available. If they are both available, the
editline library will be used.
If you don't want to use it (in which case chronyc will use a minimal command
line interface), invoke configure like this:
----
./configure --disable-readline other-options...
----
If you have editline, readline or ncurses installed in locations that aren't
normally searched by the compiler and linker, you need to use extra options:
`--with-readline-includes=directory_name`::
This defines the name of the directory above the one where `readline.h` is.
`readline.h` is assumed to be in `editline` or `readline` subdirectory of the
named directory.
`--with-readline-library=directory_name`::
This defines the directory containing the `libedit.a` or `libedit.so` file,
or `libreadline.a` or `libreadline.so` file.
`--with-ncurses-library=directory_name`::
This defines the directory containing the `libncurses.a` or `libncurses.so`
file.
== Extra options for package builders
The configure and make procedures have some extra options that may be useful if
you are building a distribution package for chrony.
The `--mandir=DIR` option to configure specifies an install directory for the
man pages. This overrides the `man` subdirectory of the argument to the
--prefix option.
----
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
----
to set both options together.
The final option is the `DESTDIR` option to the make command. For example, you
could use the commands
----
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
make all docs
make install DESTDIR=./tmp
cd tmp
tar cvf - . | gzip -9 > chrony.tar.gz
----
to build a package. When untarred within the root directory, this will install
the files to the intended final locations.