Re: [chrony-users] Chrony without daemon

[Rob Janssen <chrony-users@xxxxxxxxx>]

    My guess was that he was attempting monitoring of an existing
    chronyd outside
    his container.
    I have done that (way) in the past to monitor time service using
    nagios.
    I just installed (copied) the chronyc binary to the monitoring
    system, which
    itself was running ntpd, and made a check_chrony script that did a
    chronyc call (from a perl skeleton available for nagios).
    Probably not the most efficient way, but it works.  I used "chronyc
    tracking",
    of course with a -h parameter.
    
    But maybe I am completely wrong guessing his objectives... it is not
    very
    clear from the explanation.
    
    Rob

On 2025-08-05 09:20, Mingye Wang wrote:

> So uh Rob gave a good explanation of how chrony works, but honestly:
> this smells like an "XY problem" to me. What are you attempting to do,
> actually, by getting `chronyc sources`? In other words, what
> information do you *really* need?
>
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