On 03/09/2016 03:36 AM, Antonio Querubin wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2016, John Pilkington wrote:
>
>> But doesn't SL7 use chrony?
>
> We're talking servers (ie. always on systems) right? - where 
> supposedly ntpd is the better choice.  I would think the mirrors are 
> running ntpd instead of chronyd.
>
> But this discussion got me to rechecking again why ntpd wasn't 
> starting up on some of my own servers and it turns out chronyd was 
> still enabled on those.  Perhaps the repo servers have the same issue?
>
I've verified that the distribution servers have a stable ntpd running 
and remain synced with several on site stratum1 time sources.

Pat