From a634fd3a2d087f83ced70cae12068e9afd4391e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miroslav Lichvar Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:50:57 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: update description of offline command Reachability and online/offline mode has no effect on source selection since version 2.0. --- chrony.texi.in | 12 ++---------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/chrony.texi.in b/chrony.texi.in index b56fb81..18ebfce 100644 --- a/chrony.texi.in +++ b/chrony.texi.in @@ -4044,8 +4044,8 @@ next measurement has been made. @node offline command @subsubsection offline The @code{offline} command is used to warn @code{chronyd} that the network -connection to a particular host or hosts is about to be lost. It should -be used on computers with a dial-up or similar connection to their time +connection to a particular host or hosts is about to be lost. It can +be used on computers with intermittent connection to their time sources, to warn @code{chronyd} that the connection is about to be broken. An example of how to use @code{offline} in this case is shown in @@ -4082,14 +4082,6 @@ achieve this. The situation is shown in the figure below. @end example - -If the source to which @code{chronyd} is currently synchronised is indicated -offline in this way, @code{chronyd} will continue to treat it as the -synchronisation source. If the network connection were broken without -the @code{offline} command being used, @code{chronyd} would assume that the -source had failed and would attempt to pick another synchronisation -source. - There are four forms of the @code{offline} command. The first form is a wildcard, meaning all sources. The second form allows an IP address mask and a masked address to be specified. The third form uses the CIDR