1 About the chrony Suite

chrony is a feature that implements NTP to maintain timekeeping accurately on the network. In Oracle Linux 8 and later, the chrony daemon service replaces ntpd for the management of NTP.

chrony has two components, which are provided in the chrony package:

• chronyd service daemon

• chronyc service utility

For practical exercises in using chrony, see Configure Chrony on Oracle Linux.