Re: Systemd timers and chrony

On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 3:22 PM Miroslav Lichvar <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 23, 2022 at 03:15:21PM +0300, Andrei Borzenkov wrote:
> > And systemd-timesyncd.target will pull in time-set.target:
> >
> > Wants=time-set.target
> > Before=time-set.target
>
> An important thing to note is that timesyncd just restores the time
> from a file for the time-set target to be reached. It does not wait
> for the clock to be set by NTP.
>
> The same thing can be done with the chronyd -s option (when there is
> no RTC).
>


Yes, but without proper systemd dependencies other (timer) units will
not wait for it to happen. systemd-timesyncd.service has these
dependencies, while chronyd.service not, even if you use -s option.

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