Re: [chrony-users] 506 Cannot talk to daemon

[Benjamin Schnieders <benjamin.schnieders@xxxxxxxxx>]

chrony needs to be started as root, so it can bind to the various restricted
ports (eg 123) it needs, but then it changes user to chrony. Not sure if _chrony was a misprint.

 

Apparently, it is "_chrony" on Ubuntu 16.04.

~$ ps aux | grep chrony

_chrony   1106  0.0  0.0 107840  3028 ?        S    10:22   0:00 /usr/sbin/chronyd

On the problematic machine, however, it's still running as root. It's also running as root on another client machine (on which chronyc sources works), which is also Ubuntu 14.04, so that appears to be normal.

~$ ps aux | grep chrony

root      1213  0.0  0.0  23452  2656 ?        S    11:17   0:00 /usr/sbin/chronyd

Am I looking at the right place? It appeared to me that the slave pc was syncing its time with master. However, after using ntpdate a couple minutes later to sync both master and slave to a third machine, master was a considerable time (half a second) off. (I synced both of them to the same time server before starting chrony) Is it at all possible that chrony does hand the correct time to the slave pc, but is not able to set it on the master pc?

Checked the version again after restarting, no change.

Thanks already,

Benjamin