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Today we’ll look at how to install an NTP, chrony, client on CentOS 8.
Issue the following to install the NTP client, chrony
dnf install chrony
Start the service by issuing the following:
service chronyd start
Start chrony on boot
chkconfig chronyd on
Issue the following to list the NTP servers chrony has self-populated based on your location
chronyc sources
This is the output on our test server
210 Number of sources = 5 MS Name/IP address Stratum Poll Reach LastRx Last sample =============================================================================== ^+ time.cloudflare.com 3 6 377 5 +5900us[+5881us] +/- 86ms ^* time.cloudflare.com 3 6 377 4 +5419us[+5400us] +/- 85ms ^? time.cloudflare.com 0 8 0 - +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns ^? time.cloudflare.com 0 8 0 - +0ns[ +0ns] +/- 0ns