There is a command-line option for chronyd which runs once, sets the time and exits. # chronyd -q I run chrony as a daemon on all my systems. One system is a server to everything else that is internal. The server is the only one that goes outside. It works well. The initial setup is basically a one-time deal. After that it can be pretty much ignored. -- Bill Gee On Wednesday, December 2, 2020 1:17:04 PM CST Jerry Geis wrote: > So ntpdate is no longer present past CentOS 7. > > Many times people want "internal" NTP servers - not opening firewalls to > allow external pool.ntp.org kind of stuff. > > ntpdate was "nice" in that I could just run once a day as "ntpdate name" > and all good. Is there a similar client for CentOS 8 ? I saw chrony - but > does not seem to be a command line command and I would also have to edit a > file - Both are not desirable. > > Just looking for a simple - flexible command like I have been using > "ntpdate name" for CentOS 8. > > Thanks, > > Jerry > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >