NTP - chrony

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Hi
from Leap 15.1, chrony has been promoted for Time Synchronization with NTP (cfr https://doc.opensuse.org/documentation/leap/reference/html/book.opensuse.reference/cha-ntp.html)
But I found also the command time “timedatectl status” indicating:

Network time on: no
NTP synchronized: no
 RTC in local TZ: no

Running “systemctl status chronyd”, this shows:

Active: active (running) since...
Apr 03 16:34:36 vmi107108 systemd[1]: Starting NTP client/server...
....
Apr 03 16:34:36 vmi107108 systemd[1]: Started NTP client/server.

Does this means that the NPT client/server is not always active? Or is the information from timedatectl misleading?

Many thanks to clarify!

2

AFAIK the timedatectl should be like that because the old ntpd daemon is not running. It was replaced by chrony with it’s systemd service. A machine should never run both at the same time

3

Hi
The output shows ‘starting’ and started’ but timedatectl output should also show information, did you actually setup some time servers?

Did you see output after it’s started as in selecting a source to sync to?


timedatectl status
      Local time: Fri 2020-04-03 10:46:10 CDT
  Universal time: Fri 2020-04-03 15:46:10 UTC
        RTC time: Fri 2020-04-03 15:46:09
       Time zone: America/Chicago (CDT, -0500)
 Network time on: no
NTP synchronized: yes
 RTC in local TZ: no <== this is because RTC is set to UTC

systemctl status chronyd

......
Active: active (running) since Fri 2020-04-03 10:45:06 CDT; 1min 20s ago
......
Apr 03 10:45:13 hostname chronyd[939]: Selected source 129.250.35.250
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it shows status of systemd-timesyncd.service. It does not know about or care of any other daemon that implements NTP protocol.