Jonathan,
I would much prefer to run out-of-the box. No question!
BTW, on other machines that I installed CentOS7,
chrony, was not there. Neither was anaconda or initial-setup.
This was after the install, naturally.
Ok, so maybe this box was unlucky. It was installed the same day
as Centos7 came out. I will re-install, update and see what happens.
Quite often the problem lies between the computer and the chair.
Update to follow...
-George
On 12/12/2014 11:55 AM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
> 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/dbacec4466ee70248db634b110bfad8a2b74cd82/SPECS!ntp.spec
> )
>
> 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.
>
>