Re: Chrony without daemon
Rob Janssen <chrony-users-Cohe+2zZ/ftmR6Xm/[email protected]> Tue, 5 Aug 2025 10:03:16 +0200
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My guess was that he was attempting monitoring of an existing chronyd outside
his container.
I have done that (way) in the past to monitor time service using nagios.
I just installed (copied) the chronyc binary to the monitoring system, which
itself was running ntpd, and made a check_chrony script that did a
chronyc call (from a perl skeleton available for nagios).
Probably not the most efficient way, but it works. I used "chronyc tracking",
of course with a -h parameter.
But maybe I am completely wrong guessing his objectives... it is not very
clear from the explanation.
Rob
On 2025-08-05 09:20, Mingye Wang wrote:
> So uh Rob gave a good explanation of how chrony works, but honestly:
> this smells like an "XY problem" to me. What are you attempting to do,
> actually, by getting `chronyc sources`? In other words, what
> information do you *really* need?
>
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My guess was that he was attempting monitoring of an existing
chronyd outside<br>
his container.<br>
I have done that (way) in the past to monitor time service using
nagios.<br>
I just installed (copied) the chronyc binary to the monitoring
system, which<br>
itself was running ntpd, and made a check_chrony script that did a<br>
chronyc call (from a perl skeleton available for nagios).<br>
Probably not the most efficient way, but it works. I used "chronyc
tracking",<br>
of course with a -h parameter.<br>
<br>
But maybe I am completely wrong guessing his objectives... it is not
very<br>
clear from the explanation.<br>
<br>
Rob<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2025-08-05 09:20, Mingye Wang wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="" class="moz-quote-pre">So uh Rob gave a good explanation of how chrony works, but honestly:
this smells like an "XY problem" to me. What are you attempting to do,
actually, by getting `chronyc sources`? In other words, what
information do you *really* need?
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