Re: [chrony-users] chronyc always exits 0 without any output

[Bill Unruh <unruh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 19 Apr 2018, Wilkinson, Matthew wrote:

> I recently installed an Oracle Linux 7.5 servers with Chrony 3.2. The chronyd will
> start up, read the config, and synchronize just fine (according to the syslogs).

Is chronyd actually running? 
ps auxww|grep chronyd |grep -v grep

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> However, when I run chronyc, no matter what options I give it (even -d) and even if I
> give it no options, it just exits with return 0 and no output.


That is very strange. Even if chronyd is not running it should start up.

> Anyone run into this before or know of a way I can find out why itʼs doing this? Iʼve
> ran an strace on it, and it just quickly runs through some calls and exits 0.

"some calls" is a bit vague.
Does 
chronyc -d 
give you any hints?


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> Thanks,
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> Matthew Wilkinson
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