ntp-operate-chronyd-service.xml

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    <title>The &chronyd; &systemd; service</title>
    <abstract>
      <para>
        The main part of &chrony; is the &chronyd; &systemd; service that runs
        in the background and synchronizes system time with selected time
        servers. You can use the following &systemd; commands to operate the
        &chronyd; service:
      </para>
    </abstract>
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    <varlistentry>
      <term><command>systemctl status chronyd.service</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Prints extended information about the current status of the &chronyd;
          service.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
      <term><command>systemctl is-enabled chronyd.service</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Checks whether the automatic start of the &chronyd; service at system
          boot is enabled.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
      <term><command>systemctl enabled chronyd.service</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Enables the automatic start of the &chronyd; service at system boot.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
      <term><command>systemctl disable chronyd.service</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Disables the automatic start of the &chronyd; service at system boot.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
      <term><command>systemctl is-active chronyd.service</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Checks whether the &chronyd; service was started and is running.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
      <term><command>systemctl start chronyd.service</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Starts the &chronyd; service.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
      <term><command>systemctl stop chronyd.service</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Stops the &chronyd; service.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry>
      <term><command>systemctl restart chronyd.service</command></term>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Restarts the &chronyd; service and reloads
          <filename>/etc/chronyd.conf</filename>.
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
  </variablelist>
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