shm refclock

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo dropkick23 at gmail.com!

On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 18:57:06 -0600
dropkick23 at gmail.com wrote:

> Gary: build w/o droproot solved the problem, as referenced in other
> emails I used Before/After/Delay statements in service files to make
> sure nptd started first and gpsd waited 10 secs before starting.
> After building w/o droproot the statements in service files were not
> required.

Good.

> Hal: the problem was first detected when shm refclock did not show up
> in ntpq -p only servers from us.pool.  I than looked in ntpd.log and
> found REFCLOCK: SHM shmget (unit 1): Permission denied and  REFCLOCK:
> SHM shmget (unit 0): Permission denied.

Sure feels like a droproot permission problem.

> startup cmds from service files:
> ExecStart=/usr/bin/ntpd -g -N -u ntp:ntp -c /etc/ntp.conf
> ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/gpsd /dev/gpsd0

Uh, not quite right.  You should always use "-n" for gpsd when using
ntpd.  Otherwise gpsd can stop talking to the GPS.

RGDS
GARY
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