Conflict with chronyd with CentOS 7

[brentg71]

Sorry, I'm not too certain if this is a reasonable request or not... anyway, whenever I use this role to set up a CentOS 7 system, ntpd fails to start because, by default, chronyd is enabled (and I would rather still use ntp). Do you have any plans to add functionality that would disable chronyd? Or is this beyond the scope of your role?

[geerlingguy]

@brentg71 - Interesting... I am using this on some CentOS 7 servers without an issue, maybe this is in a certain flavor of CentOS? I'm using it with a minimal install.

The automated tests are also passing on CentOS 7: https://travis-ci.org/geerlingguy/ansible-role-ntp/jobs/217686882

[brentg71]

Thanks very much for the response! I will see if I can reproduce the error. Most likely the flavor was a qcow2 image built for OpenStack? Maybe there's something custom configured here - in which case, please disregard everything! More info to follow.

[selyx]

If you enable "network time" during the CentOS 7 installation chronyd will be used instead of ntpd (since RedHat replaced ntpd on EL7 with chronyd). Would it maybe make sense to introduce a variable to choose your prefered ntp daemon?

[selyx]

I've created PR #43 which configures chronyd instead of ntpd on RHEL / CentOS 7.

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[m8ram]

chrony is the recommended package in Centos/RHEL 7.

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[m8ram]

@brentg71 - Interesting... I am using this on some CentOS 7 servers without an issue, maybe this is in a certain flavor of CentOS? I'm using it with a minimal install.

The automated tests are also passing on CentOS 7: https://travis-ci.org/geerlingguy/ansible-role-ntp/jobs/217686882

The reason the role works on a minimal install is that neither chronyd norr NTP are installed.
@brentg71 probably has installed chronyd before running this role.

[geerlingguy]

Ah, makes sense. I haven't decided yet if I'm going to try to change this role to configure chrony or ntp (that adds significant complexity because there are some differences and I would have to choose a default (and set that default) per OS). Other option is to have a separate role for chrony.

[geerlingguy]

See #72 (comment) — this role now defaults to chrony for CentOS 7 and later (but you can still use ntp on CentOS 7 if you desire).