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chronyc — Query the Chrony NTP daemon. More information: <https://chrony-project.org/doc/latest/chronyc.html>.

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Problem

How to use the chronyc command: Query the Chrony NTP daemon. More information: <https://chrony-project.org/doc/latest/chronyc.html>.

Solution

chronyc — Query the Chrony NTP daemon. More information: <https://chrony-project.org/doc/latest/chronyc.html>.

Start chronyc in interactive mode:

chronyc

Display tracking stats for the Chrony daemon:

chronyc tracking

Print the time sources that Chrony is currently using:

chronyc sources

Display stats for sources currently used by chrony daemon as a time source:

chronyc sourcestats

Step the system clock immediately, bypassing any slewing:

chronyc makestep

Display verbose information about each NTP source:

chronyc ntpdata

Code Snippets

Start `chronyc` in interactive mode

chronyc

Display tracking stats for the Chrony daemon

chronyc tracking

Print the time sources that Chrony is currently using

chronyc sources

Display stats for sources currently used by chrony daemon as a time source

chronyc sourcestats

Step the system clock immediately, bypassing any slewing

chronyc makestep

Context

tldr-pages: common/chronyc

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