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

Paul Wouters pwouters at redhat.com
Wed Jul 17 17:56:13 UTC 2013


On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Chris Adams wrote:

> 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.

Okay, so perhaps chrony should be extended to use a "saved clock" as a
time source on boot if available, and save the time in a file regularly,
if it does not do so already.

ObPetPeve: The complete chrony documentation is supplied in texinfo format.

Paul



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