On 09/03/16 23:59, David Sommerseth wrote:
> On 09/03/16 22:20, Thomas Leavitt wrote:
>> Hmm... looks like chronyd was installed by default under SL7 (learn
>> something new every day) rather than ntpd; systems seemed to still be synced
>> and accurate to the second. I swapped that out for ntpd. We'll see if that
>> makes any difference, though I doubt it. The times seemed accurate to the
>> second when I last looked at them. Looking at the web page for chrony, it
>> sounds like it is at least a functional equivalent of ntp under Linux, if not
>> superior in some respects.
>>
>> http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/faq.html
>>
>> No transparent proxies either, as per the network admins. Some web
>> filtering done via Checkpoint firewalls, but that's it.
>
> All of my SL7 boxes are using ntpd and not chronyd too.
>

Perhaps I should say that my post in this thread wasn't intended to 
suggest that a choice between chronyd or ntpd would give significantly 
different results;  just that a disabled ntpd didn't necessarily mean a 
lack of synchronisation.

John P