On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 09:55:12AM -0500, xaos wrote:
Alexander,
First off, CentOS7 came with cronyd. Which was very annoying because when I tried to remove it, it had 2 prereqs: anaconda initial-setup
Now, I don't know why the setup program kept these 2 around. I think CentOS7 needs a bit growing up.
'initial-setup' is the program that runs on your first boot, and it requires 'anaconda'. 'anaconda' requires the 'chrony' package. Services in the default install require a time-sync daemon, and chrony is the default, so this isn't really unexpected. Once a system is set up, it doesn't remove the initial-setup package.
Then I installed ntp. However, when I started it it seems that it was not compiled with: --enable-all-clocks
That doesn't seem to be the case. Looking at the NTP spec file, I see:
%configure \ --sysconfdir=%{_sysconfdir}/ntp/crypto \ --with-openssl-libdir=%{_libdir} \ --without-ntpsnmpd \ --enable-all-clocks --enable-parse-clocks \ --enable-ntp-signd=%{_localstatedir}/run/ntp_signd \ --disable-local-libopts
(check the git.centos.org version yourself: https://git.centos.org/blob/rpms!ntp.git/dbacec4466ee70248db634b110bfad8a2b7... )
As far as I can tell, there is literally no reason why you can't use the packaged ntpd.
If you are having a problem with getting the packaged ntpd working, I suggest filing a bug against the RHEL package. The package has many patches, perhaps one of them is interfering with detecting your device.