From: John G. Hasler Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 13:55:02 +0000 (-0600) Subject: Edited faq.txt to match the version on the Website. X-Git-Tag: 1.24-pre1~9 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9d833693484febbf2a6800165f4e66687aef3519;p=thirdparty%2Fchrony.git Edited faq.txt to match the version on the Website. --- diff --git a/faq.txt b/faq.txt index f11c3c80..bb6202cb 100644 --- a/faq.txt +++ b/faq.txt @@ -19,18 +19,12 @@

This is a set of questions and answers to common problems and issues.

-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. -

-The author can be reached by email - - -

-PLEASE -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 +question 1.4. for details.


@@ -38,11 +32,13 @@ mail reader can keep my mail sorted by topic)! S: Administrative issues Q: Where can I get chrony source code? -Via the home page, see below. +Tarballs are available via the Download link on the Chrony +Web site. For the current development from the developers' version control +system see the Git 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 http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/. @@ -61,17 +57,9 @@ subject subscribe to 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 @@ -110,7 +98,7 @@ added some automated support in chrony to deal with this. 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: @@ -222,12 +210,6 @@ files when chrony was compiled. The chrony.conf file can include options to 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 download page -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'. @@ -304,13 +286,11 @@ system-dependent. It needs adapting to work with Windows' equivalent of the 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) @@ -346,14 +326,10 @@ useful to avoid this situation. S: Development -Q: Can I get the source via CVS from anywhere? You can get it via Git or -in a tarball. -See http://chrony.tuxfamily.org 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 http://chrony.tuxfamily.org for +information. S: Linux-specific issues