[CentOS] Centos 7 and ntp

Fri Oct 10 21:13:11 UTC 2014
Frank Cox <theatre at melvilletheatre.com>

I've curious about where and how Centos 7 gets its ntp configuration from.

When I installed the operating system, I went through this page and told it to use "network time", as shown:

http://media.if-not-true-then-false.com/2014/07/06-centos-7-date-and-time-748x560.png

I just discovered that i don't actually have ntp installed on this computer, though the rpm does exist when I search for it with yum.

I do have ntpdate installed, but can't find any configuration files that specify the timeservers that it's supposed to be using.

I don't have a /etc/ntp.conf file, and a grep of /var/log/messages doesn't yield any lines containing the string ntp either.

My computer's clock is not inaccurate, so I guess that ntp is working somewhere behind the scenes here, but it sure is well hidden.

Where is ntp and its configuration hiding?  Why isn't it logging what it's doing?

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