ntpd

[Kevin Martin]

On 02/04/2012 08:15 PM, Fred Erickson wrote:
> 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
>
That, I believe, is correct if you installed F16 cleanly.  If you've done an upgrade from a previous Fedora version then ntp will
still, most likely, be used.

Kevin