F20 Self Contained Change: Remove deprecated calls of using ntpdate in favor of ntpd (fwd)

Chris Adams linux at cmadams.net
Wed Jul 17 14:20:20 UTC 2013


Once upon a time, Paul Wouters <paul at nohats.ca> said:
> On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Chris Murphy wrote:
> >a. ntpd/ntpdate aren't installed by default with Fedora 19. I
> >don't see the feature proposing this be changed.
> 
> That's a bug then. It is needed for DNSSEC.

No, ntpd is not needed for DNSSEC.  A correct clock is required, but
ntpd is not the only solution.  Fedora switched to chrony by default
several releases ago.

> Well, my f18 does not even have chrony installed. Did that change for
> f19? I don't see it at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/FeatureList

Then you must have done a non-standard install; chrony is in the
Standard group in comps.

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Chris Adams <linux at cmadams.net>


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