On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 03:47:27PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote: > On Wed, 17.07.13 11:29, Miroslav Lichvar (mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > An even better example might be the -R option, which tells chronyd to > > not step the clock on start. If it was used on service restart, we > > would be sure there are no time jumps when the chrony package is > > upgraded. > > But for -R even more looking at the clock is actually the better choice > and already what happens, no? I mean, the stepping is only done if the > time difference is greater than some threshold. That sounds like a much > better solution, since it always works. The clock could be so bad (think virtual machines) that it can't be constantly kept below the threshold. Unlikely, but certainly possible. The -R option would guarantee there are no steps after the first start. -- Miroslav Lichvar -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
