RE: [chrony-users] Using only pre-configured NTP servers or server list from DHCP

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Miroslav,

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> From: Miroslav Lichvar <mlichvar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 2:58 AM
> To: chrony-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [chrony-users] Using only pre-configured NTP servers or server
> list from DHCP
> 
> On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 04:17:56PM +0000, Bryan Evenson wrote:
> > Is there any way in chrony.conf to say, "ignore any NTP servers listed
> above"?  Or, is there a way to use multiple configuration files.  For example,
> chrony.conf is the base configuration, then tell it to use either
> chrony_defaultservers.conf or chrony_dhcpservers.conf?  Or does someone
> have any other methods that they have implemented that I haven't
> considered?
> 
> With the confdir and sourcedir directives you can override a chrony config file
> by adding another config file with same name to a different directory.
> 
> For example, if chrony.conf had
> sourcedir /etc/chrony/dhcp-servers /etc/chrony/default-servers
> 
> and you had only this file in those directories /etc/chrony/default-
> servers/foo.sources
> 
> the sources from that file would be used, but if you created
> /etc/chrony/dhcp-servers/foo.sources
> 
> the first file would be ignored.
> 

My system was still on chrony version 3.5, which didn't have the sourcedir option yet.  I've upgraded to chrony 4.1 and this is doing exactly what I was looking for.  Thanks for the help!

Thanks,
Bryan

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