Re: [chrony-users] Ver 3.2 support of no RTC battery

[Vincent Blut <vincent.debian@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Robert,

On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 03:11:18PM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
> Back some time ago, I was dealing with an old version of chronyd in 
> Centos (my notes say 2.1.1) and working with armv7 boards lacking RTC 
> battery.  The hack was to add:
>
> rtcdevice /dev/doesnotexist
>
> There was somewhere a message (that I cannot find) that indicated this 
> would be better supported in 3.2 (which is what I have in my current 
> Centos image).
>
> If so, how do I tell chrony, no battery?

IIRC since chrony 3.1, you don’t have to set the rtcdevice directive to 
a non-existent character device file.

> Another part of this was to add to /etc/sysconfig/chronyd
>
> OPTIONS=" -s"
>
> to take the timestamp from the driftfile.  Is this still needed?

Yup. The “-s” option is all you need now to deal with systems with no 
RTC or without any battery.

> thanks

Cheers,
Vincent

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