Re: What package contains the time daemon?
On Sun 26 Jul 2015 at 13:59:02 +0100, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> On Sunday 26 July 2015 13:38:45 Michael Biebl wrote:
> >
> > Yes. You actually need to do that. As long as ntp is installed,
> > systemd-timesyncd won't start.
> > The assumption here is, that if the admin explicitly installed ntp, it
> > should be preferred of systemd-timesyncd.
> > See
> >
> > #
> > /lib/systemd/system/systemd-timesyncd.service.d/disable-with-time-daemon.co
> >nf [Unit]
> > # don't run timesyncd if we have another NTP daemon installed
> > ConditionFileIsExecutable=!/usr/sbin/ntpd
> > ConditionFileIsExecutable=!/usr/sbin/openntpd
> > ConditionFileIsExecutable=!/usr/sbin/chronyd
>
> So ntp won't actually harm anything. It is just unnecessary.
It is necessary to purge it if you want to use systemd-timesyncd. If you
prefer to use ntp instead of systemd-timesyncd it is not unnecessary.
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