How To Install sntp on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install sntp
on CentOS 7.
What is sntp
sntp can be used as a SNTP client to query a NTP or SNTP server and either display the time or set the local system’s time (given suitable privilege). It can be run as an interactive command or in a cron job.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install sntp
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install sntp.
Install sntp on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install sntp
using yum
by running the following command:
Install sntp on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install sntp
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall sntp on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the sntp
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install sntp
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.