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On Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 7.x, [chrony](https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/) configured to use a PTP source clock. The Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) doesnt support PTP sources, so using **chronyd** is recommended. To enable PTP, update **chrony.conf**.
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On Ubuntu 19.10 or later and Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS 7.x, [chrony](https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/) is configured to use a PTP source clock. Instead of chrony, older Linux releases use the Network Time Protocol daemon (ntpd) which doesn't support PTP sources. To enable PTP in those releases, chrony must be manually installed and configured (in chrony.conf) with the following
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```bash
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refclock PHC /dev/ptp0 poll 3 dpoll -2 offset 0
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For more information on Ubuntu and NTP, see:
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https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/NTP.html
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For more information on Red Hat and NTP, see [Configure NTP](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/system_administrators_guide/s1-configure_ntp).
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On Ubuntu and SUSE time sync is configured using [systemd](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/). For more information on Ubuntu, see [Time Synchronization](https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/NTP.html). For more information on SUSE, see Section 4.5.8 in [SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 Release Notes](https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12-SP3/#InfraPackArch.ArchIndependent.SystemsManagement).
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On SUSE and Ubuntu releases prior to 19.10 time sync is configured using [systemd](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/). For more information on Ubuntu, see [Time Synchronization](https://help.ubuntu.com/lts/serverguide/NTP.html). For more information on SUSE, see Section 4.5.8 in [SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP3 Release Notes](https://www.suse.com/releasenotes/x86_64/SUSE-SLES/12-SP3/#InfraPackArch.ArchIndependent.SystemsManagement).
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