https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ntpd-or-chronyd/m-p/228623#M79997 <P>Thank you very much!</P> Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:06:20 GMT toide 2018-06-28T14:06:20Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ntpd-or-chronyd/m-p/228621#M79995 <P>This page <A href="https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/Ambari-2.6.2.2/bk_ambari-installation/content/enable_ntp_on_the_cluster_and_on_the_browser_host.html" target="_blank">https://docs.hortonworks.com/HDPDocuments/Ambari-2.6.2.2/bk_ambari-installation/content/enable_ntp_on_the_cluster_and_on_the_browser_host.html</A> instructs to install ntpd even if using RHEL7/CentOS7.</P><P>As far as I know, Chrony is the default in RHEL7/CentOS7 instead of ntpd.</P><P>Why does that document instruct to install ntpd?</P><P>Is there any reason not to use (or recommend) Chrony?</P> Fri, 16 Sep 2022 13:23:50 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ntpd-or-chronyd/m-p/228621#M79995 toide 2022-09-16T13:23:50Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ntpd-or-chronyd/m-p/228622#M79996 <P><A rel="user" href="https://community.cloudera.com/users/55170/toide.html" nodeid="55170">@Takefumi Oide</A></P><P>According to the ambari code base both "ntp" and "chrony" are fine any of these services are fine.</P><P><A href="https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/release-2.6.2/ambari-agent/src/main/python/ambari_agent/HostInfo.py#L128-L134" target="_blank">https://github.com/apache/ambari/blob/release-2.6.2/ambari-agent/src/main/python/ambari_agent/HostInfo.py#L128-L134</A></P><P>.</P><P>I see that there are few code changes made recently to also include the : <A href="https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-18761" target="_blank">https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/AMBARI-18761</A></P><P>Doc can be enhanced.</P><P><STRONG></STRONG></P> Thu, 28 Jun 2018 13:57:46 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ntpd-or-chronyd/m-p/228622#M79996 jsensharma 2018-06-28T13:57:46Z https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ntpd-or-chronyd/m-p/228623#M79997 <P>Thank you very much!</P> Thu, 28 Jun 2018 14:06:20 GMT https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Archives-of-Support-Questions/ntpd-or-chronyd/m-p/228623#M79997 toide 2018-06-28T14:06:20Z