ntpd

[Fred Erickson]

On Sat, 2012-02-04 at 17:37 -0600, Kevin Martin wrote:
> 
> On 02/04/2012 05:30 PM, Patrick Dupre wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > When I run system-config-services,
> > ntpd does not show up (and does not run), but if I do service ntpd start
> > then it shows up in the list of service.
> > How can I make it run automatically after a reboot?
> >
> > Thank.
>
> What version of Fedora?  You'll either need to do a "chkconfig --level
> 35 ntpd on" or a "systemctl enable ntpd.service" to get it to restart
> at reboot time.
> 
> Kevin

Unless you're doing something other than keeping your computer time
synced, and are using f16, doesn't chrony handle that now?
[fred at athbox ~]$ uname -r
3.2.2-1.fc16.i686
[fred at athbox ~]$ ps -ef | grep chrony
chrony    1004     1  0 09:38 ?        00:00:00 /usr/sbin/chronyd -u
chrony
fred     10045  9896  0 16:56 pts/2    00:00:00 grep --color=auto chrony

sudo cat /var/log/messages | grep chrony
Feb  4 00:38:49 athbox chronyd[1004]: chronyd version
1.26-20110831gitb088b7 starting
Feb  4 00:38:49 athbox chronyd[1004]: Linux kernel major=3 minor=2
patch=2
Feb  4 00:38:49 athbox chronyd[1004]: hz=100 shift_hz=7
freq_scale=1.00000000 nominal_tick=10000 slew_delta_tick=833
max_tick_bias=1000
Feb  4 00:38:49 athbox chronyd[1004]: Frequency 41.161 +- 0.957 ppm read
from /var/lib/chrony/drift
Feb  4 09:39:24 athbox chronyd[1004]: Selected source 66.228.35.252
Feb  4 09:39:24 athbox chronyd[1004]: System clock wrong by 32401.599485
seconds, adjustment started
Feb  4 09:39:24 athbox chronyd[1004]: System clock was stepped by
32401.599 seconds

Keeping in mind that I know very little about which I'm speaking...Fred