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