network time default, f23

[Stephen Gallagher]

On Sat, 2015-08-29 at 15:21 -0600, Chris Murphy wrote:
> Short version: network time is not enabled in a default installation
> of Fedora 23 Server, using Fedora-Server-netinst-i386-
> 23_Beta_TC1.iso.
> 
> - Is this intended?
> - What is the user expected to do? It's not obvious.
> 
> 
> Long version:
> 
> 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.
> 
> ntp and ntpdate are installed, but both are disabled, and I don't
> even
> know what ntpdate is.
> 
> systemd-timedated.service is masked.
> systemd-timesyncd.service is disabled.
> 
> dbus-org.freedesktop.timedate1.service is enabled, which apparently
> just points to
> timedatex.service
> 
> Based on searching the journal, nothing is looking out to an ntp
> server to set the date and time correctly. If I set the hardware
> clock
> wrong (by a year) in firmware setup, it never gets corrected.
> 
> # 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.
> 
> 
> 

During today's Server SIG meeting, we agreed that we should have a
time-synchronization service enabled by default and that it will be
chrony.

I've pushed https://git.fedorahosted.org/cgit/comps.git/commit/?id=0b75
52671709a898c05b76eb47323cfb5700cc05 upstream to comps, so the Fedora
23 Beta and Final will carry this as a mandatory component.

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