[CentOS] ntpdate past CentOS 7

Mon Dec 7 05:40:00 UTC 2020
Thomas Stephen Lee <lee.iitb at gmail.com>

On Thu, Dec 3, 2020 at 12:47 AM Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> 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
> _______________________________________________


Hi,

I rebuilt ntpdate for EL8 from Fedora 33 srpm.
No patching needed.

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Lee