I have changed my NTP Servers - How can I force an update?

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Hi

I have just changed my NTP servers from the default because I was getting errors with them.

Now that I have the new servers in place I want to run an update and observe if there are any errors.

There is no button in the GUI for syncing the time unless TrueNAS detects an error and then a button will appear on the dashboard.

Can someone give me the commands I can run from the Shell to run a NTP sync.

Thanks

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Here is what I found

  • chronyd has replaced ntpd as the TrueNAS time system.
  • chronyd will cause the system to gradually correct any time offset, by slowing down or speeding up the clock as required.

CLI Commands

## Open the chronyc client terminal, which is useful for issuing multiple commands
sudo chronyc

## shows configured NTP servers (same as: System Settings --> General --> NTP Servers)
sudo cronyc sourcestats

## show man page for extra information
man chronyc

## Restart should cause an immdiate NTP poll (with no large clock offset corrections)
sudo systemctl restart chronyd

## This will cause an immediate NTP poll and correction of the the system clock (use with caution, see notes)
sudo chronyc makestep

## After making changes restart chrony service and track chrony
sudo systemctl restart chronyd ; watch chronyc tracking
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