Hi,

I have got problems with the ntp daemon.

It is enabled in systemd but is not started on boot.

# systemctl status ntpd
● ntpd.service – Network Time Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)

Starting manually works
# systemctl start ntpd
# systemctl status ntpd
● ntpd.service – Network Time Service
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: active (running) since Fri 2016-07-29 10:29:45 CEST; 3s ago
Process: 2291 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/ntpd -u ntp:ntp $OPTIONS
(code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 2296 (ntpd)
CGroup: /system.slice/ntpd.service
└─2296 /usr/sbin/ntpd -u ntp:ntp -g

Jul 29 10:29:45 simpil1 ntpd[2296]: Listen normally on 2 lo 127.0.0.1
UDP 123
Jul 29 10:29:45 simpil1 ntpd[2296]: Listen normally on 3 eno1
10.17.66.11 UDP 123
Jul 29 10:29:45 simpil1 ntpd[2296]: Listen normally on 4 lo ::1 UDP 123
Jul 29 10:29:45 simpil1 ntpd[2296]: Listen normally on 5 eno1
fe80::223:24ff:fea7:a264 UDP 123
Jul 29 10:29:45 simpil1 ntpd[2296]: Listening on routing socket on fd
#22 for interface updates Jul 29 10:29:45 simpil1 ntpd[2296]: 0.0.0.0 c016 06 restart Jul 29 10:29:45 simpil1 ntpd[2296]: 0.0.0.0 c012 02 freq_set kernel
8.993 PPM
Jul 29 10:29:46 simpil1 ntpd[2296]: 0.0.0.0 c61c 0c clock_step -0.180109 s Jul 29 10:29:46 simpil1 ntpd[2296]: 0.0.0.0 c614 04 freq_mode Jul 29 10:29:47 simpil1 ntpd[2296]: 0.0.0.0 c618 08 no_sys_peer

I see nothing ntpd related /var/log/messages or journactl during the boot phase. Seems like no attempt is made to start it at all.

Is there something that need to be done besides enabling it with systemctl?

Regards
…..Volker