Re: [chrony-dev] refclock prefer and log

[Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009, Håkan Johansson wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm testing chrony (current git) with two GPS reference clocks, but am 
> suffering from chrony moving between the two equally good sources as 
> reference clock.

In what sense suffering? Those two clocks should be equivalent to better than
a microsecond if you are using pps. If not, then it might well depend on the
length of the sentences being issued.  What are you finding?
> It would be nice with an option akin to the ntpd 'prefer' to force one of the 
> two (when it is an eligible source, i.e. OK for sync).
>
> ntpd also has a keyword 'noselect' which prevents a server from being used as 
> reference clock.  I've found that quite useful to let a good ntpd instance do 
> monitoring of other machines, without the risk of them being used as 
> reference.
>
> As far as I could see, refclock measurements in chronyd are not logged to any 
> file?  It could be nice with a /var/log/chrony/refclock.log or something 
> such, updated on each successful dpoll.
>
> Cheers,
> Håkan

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