Hello, Thanks for the link to the Linux Foundation blog post about ntp and Chrony. I had been using ntp for years but will now switch to Chrony as its code base is more modern, secure, and maintainable. Also hoping to just run less code, and I like the sound of Chrony's simpler implementation.
As far as I can tell, systemd-timedated does not handle network time[0] itself. That is the responsibility of systemd-timesyncd, which is including in systemd 213 and up[1], but was disabled by RedHat in RHEL7 / CentOS 7 for whatever reason despite that distro shipping with systemd 219. For simplicity I do prefer systemd-timesyncd on modern Debian-based systems, however. [0] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/timedated/ [1] https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-May/019537.html Cheers, On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 7:01 PM Patrick Goetz <pgo...@math.utexas.edu> wrote: > On newer systemd-based systems you can just use timedatectl -- I find > this does everything I need it to do. Although I think on RHEL/CentOS > systems timedatectl is just set start chrony, or something like this. > > On 01/14/2018 08:11 PM, Lachlan Musicman wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > As part of both Munge and SLURM, time synchronised servers are necessary. > > > > I keep finding chrony installed and running and ntpd stopped. I turn > > chrony off and restart/enable ntpd but every CentOS point update it > > seems to flip. > > > > From what I've read ntpd is better for always on devices, and chrony's > > been created for devices with a more intermittent access to a time > > server/the internet. > > > > What are people's thoughts and what are people using? > > > > cheers > > L. > > > > ------ > > "The antidote to apocalypticism is *apocalyptic civics*. Apocalyptic > > civics is the insistence that we cannot ignore the truth, nor should we > > panic about it. It is a shared consciousness that our institutions have > > failed and our ecosystem is collapsing, yet we are still here — and we > > are creative agents who can shape our destinies. Apocalyptic civics is > > the conviction that the only way out is through, and the only way > > through is together. " > > > > /Greg Bloom/ @greggish > > https://twitter.com/greggish/status/873177525903609857 > > -- Alan Orth alan.o...@gmail.com https://picturingjordan.com https://englishbulgaria.net https://mjanja.ch
