ntpMerlin ntpMerlin - NTP Daemon for AsusWRT Merlin

[Jack Yaz]

How about FlexQoS?

You're doing an excellent job with FlexQos. I use it myself and follow your commits on the develop branch to see what's coming next

 

[QuikSilver]

For those who switched over to Chrony....have you made any changes to the config?

 

[Milan]

For those who switched over to Chrony....have you made any changes to the config?

No.

 

[Treadler]

For those who switched over to Chrony....have you made any changes to the config?

No, just works!

 

[roscoe211]

Same, I made the switch to the dev branch & chrony yesterday and all good so far.

 

[Jack Yaz]

Some nice goodies on the develop branch, option uf may be needed to pull down the updated WebUI page

 

[Treadler]

Some nice goodies on the develop branch, option uf may be needed to pull down the updated WebUI page

Great functionality. Nice!

 

[JGrana]

Quick question. Where does the pid file for chrony reside? I did the uf update (nice addons!) but ntpd was shown as the Timeserver. I clicked on chrony - but it didn't restart. It was running.

From what I have seen in the past, it thinks it is already running (it wasn't).

I started it manually.

Maybe on an S77chronyd restart, force remove the pid file?

 

[Jack Yaz]

Quick question. Where does the pid file for chrony reside? I did the uf update (nice addons!) but ntpd was shown as the Timeserver. I clicked on chrony - but it didn't restart. It was running.

From what I have seen in the past, it thinks it is already running (it wasn't).

I started it manually.

Maybe on an S77chronyd restart, force remove the pid file?

That suggests your config file was set to ntpd, i guess maybe where you manually pioneered chrony? I can't say I've seen any issues with the pid file in testing

 

[JGrana]

That was it... Yes, I had compiled and installed chronyd before Entware made it available...
My original chrony.conf was in /opt/share/ntpmerlin.d.
In the past, the most likely startup failure was a pid file hanging around. I checked the logs after you mentioned config file and:
chronyd[14362]: Fatal error : Could not open configuration file /jffs/addons/ntpmerlin.d/chrony.conf : No such file or directory

So, moved my config file to /jffs/addons/ntpmerlin.d and a restart worked.
Thanks (I should have checked the log...)

 

[Jack Yaz]

That was it... Yes, I had compiled and installed chronyd before Entware made it available...
My original chrony.conf was in /opt/share/ntpmerlin.d.
In the past, the most likely startup failure was a pid file hanging around. I checked the logs after you mentioned config file and:
chronyd[14362]: Fatal error : Could not open configuration file /jffs/addons/ntpmerlin.d/chrony.conf : No such file or directory

So, moved my config file to /jffs/addons/ntpmerlin.d and a restart worked.
Thanks (I should have checked the log...)

no worries!

in other news, have you dabbled with nts to upstream? https://fedoramagazine.org/secure-ntp-with-nts/
I think we'll need chrony v4 though

 

[SomeWhereOverTheRainBow]

no worries!

in other news, have you dabbled with nts to upstream? https://fedoramagazine.org/secure-ntp-with-nts/
I think we'll need chrony v4 though

If that is the case we need to excite someone in the entware dev team to add it.

 

[Jack Yaz]

If that is the case we need to excite someone in the entware dev team to add it.

they're usually quite happy to update packages on request via issues on github, but make sure v4 is actually released as stable first!

 

[JGrana]

no worries!

in other news, have you dabbled with nts to upstream? https://fedoramagazine.org/secure-ntp-with-nts/
I think we'll need chrony v4 though

Yes, I saw the 4.0 branch. I have compiled it on my AX88u. Running quite well. I can't seem to get NTS enabled. It requires the gnutls library. The configure script reports no gnutls - so NTS is disabled. I did install the two gnutls packages available on entware. Still won't compile with NTS enabled.
I did compile it with NTS support on Raspbian. Haven't tested NTS (Cloudflare claims to support NTS).
We will have to ask the Entware devs to make sure NTS is enabled when we ask for 4.0

 

[Jack Yaz]

Yes, I saw the 4.0 branch. I have compiled it on my AX88u. Running quite well. I can't seem to get NTS enabled. It requires the gnutls library. The configure script reports no gnutls - so NTS is disabled. I did install the two gnutls packages available on entware. Still won't compile with NTS enabled.
I did compile it with NTS support on Raspbian. Haven't tested NTS (Cloudflare claims to support NTS).
We will have to ask the Entware devs to make sure NTS is enabled when we ask for 4.0

OK, since it isn't as simple as I'd hoped I won't hold up releasing v3 any longer. Incoming!

 

[Jack Yaz]

v3.0.0 is now available
Changelog:

NEW: ntpMerlin can be configured using the WebUI
NEW: Choice of chrony or ntpd as timeserver used by ntpMerlin
IMPROVED: WebUI now uses a dropdown to select a time period for charts
IMPROVED: Update modmon using the WebUI

 

[maghuro]

I'm stuck yet with the missing nobody user. Can't solve it.

 

[JGrana]

I'm stuck yet with the missing nobody user. Can't solve it.

For the time being, you could try to replace the "-u nobody" with "-u admin" in /opt/etc/init.d/S77chronyd...

 

[Jack Yaz]

I'm stuck yet with the missing nobody user. Can't solve it.

I assume you have rebooted? What do you see in /etd/passwd?

 

[maghuro]

For the time being, you could try to replace the "-u nobody" with "-u admin" in /opt/etc/init.d/S77chronyd...

Same problem...