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This is a set of questions and answers to common problems and issues.
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-As I receive more emails about the software, I will add new questions
+As we receive more emails about the software, we will add new questions
to this page.
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-The author can be reached by email
-<a href="mailto:rc@rc0.org.uk">
-</a>
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-<b>PLEASE</b>
-include the word "chrony" in your subject line if possible (so that my
-mail reader can keep my mail sorted by topic)!
+The developers can be reached via the chrony-dev mailing list. See
+<a href="#question_1.4">question 1.4.</a> for details.
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S: Administrative issues
Q: Where can I get chrony source code?
-Via the home page, see below.
+Tarballs are available via the <b>Download</b> link on the Chrony
+Web site. For the current development from the developers' version control
+system see the <b>Git</b> link on the Web site.
Q: Are there any packaged versions of chrony?
-I am aware of packages for Debian, Mandrake and Redhat. I am not personally
-involved with how these are built or distributed.
+We are aware of packages for Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, Mandriva, Slackware,
+and Ubuntu. We are not involved with how these are built or distributed.
Q: Where is the home page?
It is currently at <a href="http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/">http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/</a>.
Q: What licence is applied to chrony?
Starting from version 1.15, chrony is licensed under the GNU General Public
-License. Versions prior to 1.15 were licensed under a custom BSD-like
+License, Version 2. Versions prior to 1.15 were licensed under a custom BSD-like
license.
-If you want to use parts of chrony in non-free software, you will need to use
-older versions of the source code. Alternatively, contact me - I may be
-prepared to licence parts of the source code to suit your purposes. I am quite
-sympathetic to projects licensed under other free/open-source (but non-GPL)
-licences, as well as to commercial projects which are of a single-customer
-"turnkey" nature (as opposed to mass-market "shrink-wrap" or "floating-licence"
-products).
-
S: Chrony compared to other programs
Q: How does chrony compare to xntpd?
If your computer is permenently connected, or connected for long periods (that
S: Compilation issues
Q:How do I apply source patches?
-Sometimes I release source patches rather than a full version when I need to
+Sometimes we release source patches rather than a full version when we need to
provide a fix for small problems. Supposing you have chrony-1.X.tar.gz and a
source patch chrony-1.X-1.X.1.gz. The steps required are:
modify the HZ value (see the discussion of linux_hz and linux_freq_scale in the
documentation), however the problem is to find the value of HZ being used.
-At the end of the chrony v1.18 section of the <a href="./download.php">download page</a>
-you'll find instructions on how to do this.
-
-This will be fixed in version 1.19, by getting chronyd to auto-detect the
-kernel's value rather than relying on the compiled-in default.
-
S: Issues with chronyc
Q: I keep getting the error '510 No command access from this host --- Reply not authenticated'.
adjtimex() call, and it needs to be made to work as an NT service.
Q: Are there any plans to support Windows?
-I have no personal plans to do this. I have neither the time nor the
-Windows programming expertise. Some time ago I did start work on a port which
-I was developing under Cygwin. Anyone is welcome to pick this work up and
+We have no plans to do this. Anyone is welcome to pick this work up and
contribute it back to the project.
Q: What alternative NTP clients are there for Windows?
-Some of the names I've seen mentioned are
+Some of the names we've seen mentioned are
- Automachron
- NetTime (nettime.sourceforge.net)
S: Development
-Q: Can I get the source via CVS from anywhere? You can get it via Git or
-in a tarball.
-See <a href="http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/">http://chrony.tuxfamily.org</a> for
-information. Currently there is only anonymous read-only access. I keep
-the master copy on my own PC, which is more convenient for me because I
-don't have to connect to the Internet to do CVS operations on the files.
-So for now, there is no read-write access for other developers. Please
-email me your patches + documentation instead.
+Q: Can I get the source via git from anywhere?
+Yes. See the Git link at <a
+href="http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/">http://chrony.tuxfamily.org</a> for
+information.
S: Linux-specific issues