From: Miroslav Lichvar Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:27:03 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: improve description of -x in chronyd man page X-Git-Tag: 3.3-pre1~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=aa4228bf1bf1bad6bc8b069713485ed69d382e47;p=thirdparty%2Fchrony.git doc: improve description of -x in chronyd man page --- diff --git a/doc/chronyd.adoc b/doc/chronyd.adoc index f5bb3604..fc79078d 100644 --- a/doc/chronyd.adoc +++ b/doc/chronyd.adoc @@ -157,11 +157,13 @@ This option will lock *chronyd* into RAM so that it will never be paged out. This mode is only supported on Linux. *-x*:: -This option disables the control of the system clock. *chronyd* will not make -any adjustments of the clock, but it will still track its offset and frequency -relative to the estimated true time, and be able to operate as an NTP server. -This allows *chronyd* to run without the capability to adjust or set the system -clock (e.g. in some containers). +This option disables the control of the system clock. *chronyd* will not try to +make any adjustments of the clock. It will assume the clock is free running and +still track its offset and frequency relative to the estimated true time. This +option allows *chronyd* to run without the capability to adjust or set the +system clock (e.g. in some containers) in order to operate as an NTP server. It +is not recommended to run *chronyd* (with or without *-x*) when another process +is controlling the system clock. *-v*:: With this option *chronyd* will print version number to the terminal and exit.