On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 11:44:35AM +1000, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
On Mon, May 27, 2019 at 06:32:19AM +0200, Ralf Prengel (ralf.prengel@rprengel.de) wrote:
Hallo,
what is the standard way to sync time under Centos 7. ntp or chrony.
YMMV.
I have used NTP for many, many years so I am familiar with it and also have ALL config files, I normally just delete chrony and install ntpd, then copy the config files and start ntp. All done, 2 minutes.
Chrony cannot supply time info, so if you have clients requesting time info the server cannot serve time, you need ntpd for that. I have many windows stations that pull time from my CentOS servers.
Back when I used chrony in my home LAN it certainly did serve time. I brought it up on my firewall (an old PC running SmoothWall) as a local time server and it worked great for that purpose.
It's hard to imagine that someone would have REMOVED that ability in the intervening years....