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chrony.conf(5) Configuration Files chrony.conf(5)

NAME

chrony.conf - chronyd configuration file
 

SYNOPSIS

/etc/chrony.conf
 

DESCRIPTION

chrony is a pair of programs for maintaining the accuracy of computer clocks. chronyd is a background daemon program that can be started at boot time.
 
Assuming that you have found some servers, you need to set up a configuration file to run chrony. The (compiled-in) default location for this file is /etc/chrony.conf. Assuming that your ntp servers are called `a.b.c' and `d.e.f', your chrony.conf file could contain as a minimum
 

server a.b.c
server d.e.f
server g.h.i
 
However, you will probably want to include some of the other directives described in detail in the documentation supplied with the distribution ( chrony.txt and chrony.texi). The following directives will be particularly useful : `driftfile', `commandkey', `keyfile'. The smallest useful configuration file would look something like
 

server a.b.c
server d.e.f
server g.h.i
keyfile /etc/chrony.keys
commandkey 1
driftfile /etc/chrony.drift
 
 

SEE ALSO

chrony(1), chronyc(1), chronyd(8)
 
http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/
 

AUTHOR

Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
 
This man-page was written by Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org> as part of "The Missing Man Pages Project". Please see http://www.netmeister.org/misc/m2p2/index.html for details.
 
The complete chrony documentation is supplied in texinfo format.
 
December 4, 2009 chrony