chrony, ntp, timesyncd?

Simo Sorce simo at redhat.com
Tue Apr 7 00:08:43 UTC 2015


On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 17:45 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-04-06 at 16:59 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > On Thu, 2015-04-02 at 17:09 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > > I have Fedora 22 Server Beta TC4 (I realize TC6 is current0 
> > > installed,
> > > and just today realized the date+time is wrong by 20 hours. I don't
> > > know why it would be this wrong absent something to keep it 
> > > accurate,
> > > however chrony is was not installed by default. It is installed by
> > > default with Fedora 21 Server. So? Is this inadvertent? I think
> > > something needs to keep the time correct.
> > > 
> > 
> > Good question. This did not happen intentionally as far as I am 
> > aware. 
> > I'm looking into what happened.
> 
> 
> Maybe I'm reading things wrong, but it looks like chrony shouldn't 
> have been installed by default on F21 Server either (at least 
> technically). The fact that it was seems to have been a happy accident.
> 
> The only thing in F21 that could have pulled it in was a conditional 
> in @standard that says to pull in chrony if the "control-center" 
> package was also being installed.
> 
> Anyway, I've just pushed a comps update[1] to add chrony to the 
> @server-product group (a catch-all for things we want in the Server 
> defaults that don't clearly fit into the @server-hardware-support, 
> @headless-management, @container-management or @domain-client groups).
> 
> [1] 
> https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/comps.git/commit/?id=be00e397765f841ca608d2f070ee39d4b0d9ba58

Given the domain controller role uses ntpd, shouldn't we rather install
that one ?

Simo.

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