Re: Marking a refclock unusable / changing its precision at runtime

Miroslav Lichvar <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.time.chrony.user
Message-ID <Y5n3wwMTaz4qAxzH@localhost>
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 09:09:29AM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2022 at 02:26:35PM -0700, Keenan Tims wrote:
> > I would prefer not to run my monitoring task as root, so that it can
> > restart chrony (and thus also lose all of chrony's state with its
> > servers), so I was looking for a way to remove / noselect / unprefer'
> > the refclock via chronyc, but these options all seem to only be
> > available for NTP servers. Is there something I am missing, or is the
> > only option to modify the configuration file and restart chrony
> > entirely (or implement a SOCK/SHM shim)?
> 
> There is currently no way to modify the selection options of an NTP
> source or refclock. I agree that could be useful. I added it to my
> todo list.

A new "selectopts" command is now available in the latest development
code for modification of selection options.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar


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