Re: [chrony-users] Discover when a time sync has been performed

Hi Miroslav,

thanks for your answer. It partially solves my question, but I'm not able to see the entry in the tracking log when makestep is applied. Last lines of the file look like this:

2013-07-04 12:59:20 193.145.56.7 3 36.888 27.043 -1..121e-09
2013-07-04 12:59:22 193.145.56.7 3 36.888 27.042 -1..999e-10
2013-07-04 12:59:25 193.145.56.7 3 36.888 27.041 -8..009e-11
2013-07-04 12:59:28 193.145.56.7 3 36.888 27.041 -1..750e-11
2013-07-04 12:59:30 193.145.56.7 3 36.888 27.041 -3..122e-12
2013-07-04 12:59:33 193.145.56.7 3 36.888 27.041 -1..252e-12
2013-07-04 12:59:36 193.145.56.7 3 36.888 27.041 -2..735e-13
2013-07-04 12:59:38 193.145.56.7 3 36.888 27.041 -4..878e-14
2013-07-04 12:59:41 193.145.56.7 3 36.888 27.041 -1..955e-14
2013-07-04 13:02:29 193.145.56.7 3 36.888 27.041 -2..559e-13
=======================================================================
Date (UTC) Time IP Address St Freq ppm Skew ppm Offset
=======================================================================
2013-07-04 13:02:29 193.145.56.7 3 35.372 25.842 -9..218e-03
2013-07-04 13:02:35 193.145.56.7 3 35.053 24.987 -2..218e-06
2013-07-04 13:02:37 193.145.56.7 3 34.981 24.662 -1..912e-07
2013-07-04 13:02:37 193.145.56.7 3 51.432 44.243 1.820e-02
2013-07-04 13:02:41 193.145.56.7 3 62.654 44.994 1.025e-02
2013-07-04 13:02:45 193.145.56.7 3 61.990 45.978 -1..239e-02
2013-07-04 13:02:49 193.145.56.7 3 62.469 43.023 2.828e-03
2013-07-04 13:05:05 193.145.56.7 3 77.812 57.165 7.208e-02
2013-07-04 13:05:13 193.145.56.7 3 82.492 50.649 -2..832e-03
2013-07-04 13:05:17 193.145.56.7 3 82.620 46.004 -2..830e-03
2013-07-04 13:05:21 193.145.56.7 3 82.127 43.920 -2..164e-03
2013-07-04 13:05:25 193.145.56.7 3 81.555 42.269 -1..921e-03

Should I expect some "Makestep OK" message? or it's a different state?

Thanks for your help.

2013/7/4 Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx>

On Thu, Jul 04, 2013 at 12:32:10PM +0200, Ignacio Verona Ríos wrote:
> My question is about checking when a time sync has been performed. I'm
> developing an application where time sync is important. It's running on a
> Raspberry Pi, so time is not very good kept. When the net connection is
> started I notify chrony about the sources being online, and the config is
> set to execute a "makestep" if more than 10secs deviation is found.
>
> But, how may I check if the sycn (makestep) is already done? I've been
> searching the logs (syslog, tracking, measurements) but don't know what may
> trigger my "Sync ok!" event.

If the measured offset is larger than the makestep limit, chronyd will
correct the error immediately. When that happens, a message is written
to the system log and there should be an entry in the tracking log
too if it's enabled.

If the offset is below the makestep limit, it will be corrected slowly
by slewing. You can monitor the remaining correction in the "System
time" field in the tracking report.

> Maybe looking at the offset value and setting some threshold, so if it's
> lower it's ok for the app to continue?

It depends on what exactly you want to check. You can use the chronyc
waitsync command, it waits for the remaining correction (and
optionally also for the skew) to be smaller than a specified limit.

If you need also to be sure that an update was actually performed
after the sources were set online, you will need to check the time
stamps in tracking log or check if the Ref time field in the tracking
report has changed.

Does this answer your question?

--
Miroslav Lichvar

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