systemctl status chronyd
Installing Chrony on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8
Set timezone.
sudo timedatectl set-timezone Asia/BangkokChrony can be installed on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8 from package manager.
sudo yum -y install chrony
After the installation, start and enable chronyd service.
sudo systemctl enable --now chronyd
The service status should show running
$ systemctl status chronyd
● chronyd.service - NTP client/server
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/chronyd.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Mon 2018-12-31 08:11:50 EAT; 5min ago
Docs: man:chronyd(8)
man:chrony.conf(5)
Main PID: 743 (chronyd)
Tasks: 1 (limit: 5061)
Memory: 1.7M
CGroup: /system.slice/chronyd.service
└─743 /usr/sbin/chronyd
Configuring Chrony on RHEL 8 / CentOS 8
After the installation, you can make the changes on Chrony main configuration file /etc/chrony.conf
One main configuration change you can make is to set the time servers closest to you. Since I’m in Nairobi, I’ll set Africa NTP pool of servers.
