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<p>
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This is a set of questions and answers to common problems and issues.
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<p>
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As I receive more emails about the software, I will add new questions
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As we receive more emails about the software, we will add new questions
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to this page.
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<hr>
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<p>
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The author can be reached by email
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<a href="mailto:rc@rc0.org.uk">
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</a>
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<b>PLEASE</b>
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include the word "chrony" in your subject line if possible (so that my
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mail reader can keep my mail sorted by topic)!
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The developers can be reached via the chrony-dev mailing list. See
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<a href="#question_1.4">question 1.4.</a> for details.
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<hr>
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<br clear=all>
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@ -38,11 +32,13 @@ mail reader can keep my mail sorted by topic)!
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S: Administrative issues
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Q: Where can I get chrony source code?
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Via the home page, see below.
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Tarballs are available via the <b>Download</b> link on the Chrony
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Web site. For the current development from the developers' version control
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system see the <b>Git</b> link on the Web site.
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Q: Are there any packaged versions of chrony?
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I am aware of packages for Debian, Mandrake and Redhat. I am not personally
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involved with how these are built or distributed.
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We are aware of packages for Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Slackware,
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and Ubuntu. We are not involved with how these are built or distributed.
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Q: Where is the home page?
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It is currently at <a href="http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/">http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/</a>.
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Q: What licence is applied to chrony?
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Starting from version 1.15, chrony is licensed under the GNU General Public
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License. Versions prior to 1.15 were licensed under a custom BSD-like
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License, Version 2. Versions prior to 1.15 were licensed under a custom BSD-like
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license.
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If you want to use parts of chrony in non-free software, you will need to use
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older versions of the source code. Alternatively, contact me - I may be
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prepared to licence parts of the source code to suit your purposes. I am quite
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sympathetic to projects licensed under other free/open-source (but non-GPL)
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licences, as well as to commercial projects which are of a single-customer
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"turnkey" nature (as opposed to mass-market "shrink-wrap" or "floating-licence"
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products).
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S: Chrony compared to other programs
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Q: How does chrony compare to xntpd?
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If your computer is permenently connected, or connected for long periods (that
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S: Compilation issues
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Q:How do I apply source patches?
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Sometimes I release source patches rather than a full version when I need to
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Sometimes we release source patches rather than a full version when we need to
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provide a fix for small problems. Supposing you have chrony-1.X.tar.gz and a
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source patch chrony-1.X-1.X.1.gz. The steps required are:
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modify the HZ value (see the discussion of linux_hz and linux_freq_scale in the
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documentation), however the problem is to find the value of HZ being used.
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At the end of the chrony v1.18 section of the <a href="./download.php">download page</a>
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you'll find instructions on how to do this.
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This will be fixed in version 1.19, by getting chronyd to auto-detect the
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kernel's value rather than relying on the compiled-in default.
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S: Issues with chronyc
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Q: I keep getting the error '510 No command access from this host --- Reply not authenticated'.
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adjtimex() call, and it needs to be made to work as an NT service.
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Q: Are there any plans to support Windows?
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I have no personal plans to do this. I have neither the time nor the
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Windows programming expertise. Some time ago I did start work on a port which
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I was developing under Cygwin. Anyone is welcome to pick this work up and
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We have no plans to do this. Anyone is welcome to pick this work up and
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contribute it back to the project.
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Q: What alternative NTP clients are there for Windows?
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Some of the names I've seen mentioned are
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Some of the names we've seen mentioned are
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- Automachron
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- NetTime (nettime.sourceforge.net)
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S: Development
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Q: Can I get the source via CVS from anywhere? You can get it via Git or
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in a tarball.
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See <a href="http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/">http://chrony.tuxfamily.org</a> for
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information. Currently there is only anonymous read-only access. I keep
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the master copy on my own PC, which is more convenient for me because I
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don't have to connect to the Internet to do CVS operations on the files.
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So for now, there is no read-write access for other developers. Please
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email me your patches + documentation instead.
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Q: Can I get the source via git from anywhere?
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Yes. See the Git link at <a
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href="http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/">http://chrony.tuxfamily.org</a> for
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information.
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S: Linux-specific issues
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