On Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:47:32 -0500 John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Chrony shouldn't hang when it can't find the rtc: it should just exit. > > And on my machines it does.
Awkward, I've just tried to discard the rtcdevice directive from /etc/chrony/chrony.conf After # /etc/init.d/chrony stop # /etc/init.d/chrony start chronyd started and went on running, even though it logged the following error messages to /var/log/daemon.log: chronyd[16196]: Could not open /dev/rtc, No such file or directory chronyd[16196]: Real time clock not supported on this operating system When I first rebooted the box with Linux kernel 2.6.26, the above error messages were logged, but then chronyd did nothing else for about 95 s ... Maybe I was just too impatient? > > The initscript may hang for a few minutes when netstat can't get the > routing tables, though. Perhaps that is what you are seeing? Frankly speaking, I don't know... -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/index.html#nanodocs The nano-document series is here! ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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