ntpd not started in cspvm by default

[rommelfs]

Time will drift easily on VM installation

[thanosa75]

Alpine uses chrony (https://chrony.tuxfamily.org) for the NTP service. Please confirm that you do not see this process running, by doing:

ps -ef |grep chronyd

Thanks

[rommelfs]

I confirm I see this process.

I also confirm a time drift of 9 days.

I was able to fix it by starting /etc/init.d/ntpd

[thanosa75]

Hi, starting ntpd will make a mess, you cannot have two ntp clients running at the same time! I suggest you stop ntpd (provided by busybox) and restart chronyd to see whether it has trouble connecting to it's configured services as noted by the configuration at /etc/chrony/chrony.conf Best regards, Thanos

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[thanosa75]

To further troubleshoot your VM with chrony you could use (I assume ntpd will be stopped and chronyd restarted):

chronyc activity

we get:

4 sources online
0 sources offline
0 sources doing burst (return to online)
0 sources doing burst (return to offline)
0 sources with unknown address

chronyc sourcestats

Name/IP Address            NP  NR  Span  Frequency  Freq Skew  Offset  Std Dev
==============================================================================
router-vzb.servme.network   7   4   34m     -0.011      0.039   -221us  9172ns
ntp-ext.cosng.net           7   5  103m     +0.115      0.238   +751us   225us
ntp1.kolatelecom.ru        20  13  141m     +1.708      0.322  +9682us   870us
mail.fangfufu.co.uk         6   3   43m     -0.006      0.221   -191us    59us

[thanosa75]

Hello @rommelfs any news?

[rommelfs]

What news do you expect? chronyc is running, ntpd is running, still time drifts.
I will only be worried about this once this instance is registered at the central node (which hasn't happened within the last two weeks). So this is for your information if you like to dig into it. If not, fine for me.

[thanosa75]

Hello @rommelfs

Please do the following:
a) stop ntpd and reboot the instance.
b) execute the following: cronyc sourcestats, chronyc activity and provide us with the output.

Thanks

[thanosa75]

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