Hello,
Today I installed and activated a new NTP client (https://docs.ntpd-rs.pendulum-project.org/) (which can work also as a server, but it is outside of the scope of my current presentation) that implements the NTP and NTS protocols (see documentation (https://docs.ntpd-rs.pendulum-project.org/guide/nts/)); it is developed in Rust - hopefully it is fast, robust and secure.
I have disabled the default NTP client (openntpd) since it was failing to synchronize the clock.
The AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ntpd-rs) builds it from source, but we still need the
dinit service description; well, here it is ...
There are two things we need to know related to this configuration:
- I tried to make it run under the ntp account identity (which already exists) - it refuses to start
- Since it requires the folder /run/ntpd-rs/ to be created, I had to add the pre script to handle the folder creation
If somebody has ideas about how to improve this service, your suggestions are welcome !
Here is the
ntpd-rs service description file
# ntpd-rs
type = process
command = /usr/bin/ntp-daemon --log-level=info
start-timeout = 60
smooth-recovery = true
socket-listen = /var/run/ntpd-rs/observe
# run-as = ntp
log-type = file
logfile = /var/log/dinit/ntpd-rs.log
depends-on = network.target
before = time-sync.target
load-options = export-service-name
depends-ms = ntpd-rs-pre
And the
ntpd-rs-pre script description file
type = scripted
command = mkdir -p /run/ntpd-rs/
depends-on = local.target
before = ntpd-rs