network time default, f23

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 09:11 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-08-31 at 12:10 +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 03:21:59PM -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> > > chrony is not installed, meanwhile it's installed and the default
> > > on
> > > workstation. Right off the bat it's confusing that server and
> > > workstation will use different services for time synchronization.
> > 
> > IIRC there was a similar problem in F22. chrony was added to the
> > server-product group in comps, but that's not the case in the F23
> > comps.
> > 
> > > ntp and ntpdate are installed, but both are disabled, and I don't
> > > even
> > > know what ntpdate is.
> > 
> > ntp seems to be installed as a freeipa dependency. It's not enabled
> > by default. There was some discussion that the ipa-*-install
> > scripts
> > will support chrony as an NTP client and server, but that didn't
> > seem
> > to happen yet.
> > 
> > > # timedatectl
> > >       Local time: Fri 2013-08-30 23:32:34 MDT
> > >   Universal time: Sat 2013-08-31 05:32:34 UTC
> > >         RTC time: Sat 2013-08-31 05:32:34
> > >        Time zone: America/Denver (MDT, -0600)
> > >  Network time on: no
> > > NTP synchronized: no
> > >  RTC in local TZ: no
> > > 
> > > # systemctl enable ntpd
> > > # systemctl start ntpd
> > > 
> > > Fixes this, but it seems like something should be enabled by
> > > default.
> > 
> > If you want to just enable a (S)NTP client, "timedatectl set-ntp
> > true"
> > should work in all four combinations of chrony and ntp packeges
> > being
> > installed or not installed.
> > 
> 
> I'm looking into this right now. I think what we want to do is to
> ship
> with systemd-timesyncd.service enabled by default, but I'm running
> some tests to figure out if this will cause issues with installing
> FreeIPA (since it doesn't explicitly know to check for this case and
> disable it when enabling ntpd).
> 
> If it works cleanly, we should probably turn this on in our presets.


Good news! It turns out that ipa-server-install does indeed stop-and-
disable systemd-timesyncd. So I'm going to just go ahead and submit a
pull-request to get that enabled in Fedora Server.
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