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WvR
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 Posted: Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:58 am Post subject: [systemd] What NTP service to use |
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I recently upgraded to Gnome-3.8 and systemd. It seems that systemd works, but there are a few details to take care of. One of these details is how to get automatic & continuous time & data setting with NTP. Previously, I used ntp-client (at startup) and then ntpd while the computer was running. I tried to use these with systemd, but it seems there are no services for systemd. I tried several ways: | Code: | | systemctl enable ntp |
(does not work), | Code: | | systemctl enable ntpd |
(does not work), | Code: | | systemctl enable ntpdate |
(does not work), | Code: | | systemctl enable ntp-client |
(does not work).
After some Googling, I found that maybe I should use , so I installed that. However, when I issue
| Code: | | systemctl enable chrony |
there is no error, but the chronyd service is listed as FAILED. When I start chronyd by hand, it works fine. I don't understand why it does not work with systemd but I could not find any usable debug info. So.... what can I use to set the time & date automatically and have continuous synchronization with NTP, if I use systemd? |
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azp
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Location: Sweden
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| Posted: Thu Sep 05, 2013 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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I have a service called ntp-client.service, which starts and tries to set the time. But it doesn't quite work:
| Code: | root@skare$ systemctl status ntp-client.service
ntp-client.service - Set time via NTP
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib64/systemd/system/ntp-client.service; enabled)
Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since tor 2013-09-05 23:08:29 CEST; 20min ago
Process: 445 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntpdate $NTPCLIENT_OPTS (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
Main PID: 445 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)
CGroup: /system.slice/ntp-client.service
sep 05 23:08:29 skare ntpdate[445]: 5 Sep 23:08:29 ntpdate[445]: no servers can be used, exiting
sep 05 23:08:29 skare systemd[1]: ntp-client.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
sep 05 23:08:29 skare systemd[1]: Failed to start Set time via NTP.
sep 05 23:08:29 skare systemd[1]: Unit ntp-client.service entered failed state. |
and the log says:
| Code: | sep 05 23:30:17 skare systemd[1]: Starting Set time via NTP...
-- Subject: Unit ntp-client.service has begun with start-up
-- Defined-By: systemd
-- Support: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
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-- Unit ntp-client.service has begun starting up.
sep 05 23:30:17 skare systemd[1]: Ignoring invalid environment 'NTPCLIENT_OPTS=-s -b -u 0.gentoo.pool.ntp.org 1.gentoo.pool.ntp.org 2.gentoo.pool.ntp.org 3.gentoo.pool.ntp.org': /etc/conf.d/ntp-client
sep 05 23:30:17 skare ntpdate[25340]: 5 Sep 23:30:17 ntpdate[25340]: no servers can be used, exiting
sep 05 23:30:17 skare systemd[1]: ntp-client.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=1/FAILURE
sep 05 23:30:17 skare systemd[1]: Failed to start Set time via NTP. |
So I'm not quite sure what to do about that. I guess the settings are b0rked and it needs to be ported to work with systemd.
By the way, I really recommend enabling bash completion, that lets you write 'systemctl enable' and then press tab to see all available services. No need to guess anymore 
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| Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 9:26 pm Post subject: ntpdate |
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As I am on a desktop system which is only turned on once a day, I use ntpdate which is part of net-misc/ntp.
The net-misc/ntp installs as well a ntpdate.service file for systemd. You can easily activate it by passing a "systemctl enable ntpdate.service". |
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croutch
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Location: göteborg
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ulenrich
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| Posted: Fri Dec 06, 2013 11:22 am Post subject: |
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@WvR , I learned from another thread your issue might be more basic systemd related:
As root user having to configure localtime with systemd you should have a look at output of :
| Code: | $ timedatectl
# if not the timezone you want in the first line, list possibilities:
$ timedatectl list-timezones
# shows how to configure:
$ man timedatectl |
At the end you should have something like me for germany:
| Code: | $ vdir /etc/localtime
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 19. Nov 14:37 /etc/localtime -> /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin |
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