Atanas Vladimirov wrote on 09.10.2026 12:06:
> On 2026-10-08 17:59, Thomas Kupper wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> A ping, with text and all :
>>
>>
>> End of August 26 chrony 4.9 was released with support for OpenBSD 
>> including pledge(2) support and support for refclock driver for 
>> OpenBSD timedelta sensors.
>>
>> I'd very much welcome feedback and testing of chrony.
>>
>> For anyone not knowing what chrony is used for, here a short 
>> introduction:
>>
>> chrony is a versatile implementation of the Network Time Protocol 
>> (NTP). It can synchronise the system clock with NTP servers, reference 
>> clocks (e.g. GPS receiver), and manual input using wristwatch and 
>> keyboard. It can also operate as an NTPv4 (RFC 5905) server and peer 
>> to provide a time service to other computers in the network.
>>
>> The news about 4.9 (and previous versions) can be found at :
>>     https://chrony-project.org/news.html
>>
>> Find attached the OpenBSD ports archive for it.
>>
>> It run under the user _chrony which would have to be added to the 
>> user.list beforehand with user ID 906, the lowest unused ID as of 
>> today/2026-10-08.
>>
>> ---
>> diff -us infrastructure/db/user.list{.orig,}
>> --- infrastructure/db/user.list.orig    Sun Aug 30 07:49:54 2026
>> +++ infrastructure/db/user.list    Sun Aug 30 07:49:15 2026
>> @@ -414,3 +414,4 @@
>>  903 _iaxmodem        _iaxmodem    telephony/iaxmodem
>>  904 _neighbot        _neighbot    net/neighbot
>>  905 _pgweb        _pgweb        www/pgweb
>> +906 _chrony        _chrony        net/chrony
>> ---
>>
>> /Thomas
> 
> Hey Thomas,
> 
> It's me again :)
> I just wanted the thanks you again and to repeat myself that I'm running 
> this port since I fond it, and I'm very happy with it.
> 
> Here you can see how accurate my stratum 1 server running Chrony and the 
> refclock timedelta sensors is:
> https://www.ntppool.org/a/don.nasco
> 
> I hope that we will have it officially in ports as soon as possible!
Thank you Atanas, kind of you to support the effort. I won't put Stuart 
on CC since it seemed he got annoyed by your last email and let us know 
that he has little motivation to test chrony. Maybe someone else will 
take it on. I don't won't to upset anyone, especially not someone that 
works so hard for OpenBSD.

The biggest pain - if not in ports - is changing the user id when 
eventually another user with ID 906 will be created for a port that 
makes it into port. That of course can be solved with a few lines of a 
shell script.

But maybe it's easier if I change the user to _ntp in anticipation of 
the port not getting in, what do you think?

/Thomas

> Best wishes,
> Atanas
>