I am able to manually start ntpd using the command "systemctl start 
ntpd.service". I thought I had indicated that in my original post. When 
I run the enable command, it does create a sym link. Below is what it 
does...

ln -s '/usr/lib/systemd/system/ntpd.service' 
'/etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants/ntpd.service'

For some reason or another it is not starting though on boot.

I looked at my log file and it is not showing any failure from what I 
can see. I know that systemd is not starting ntpd automatically. I am 
using the package that came with the distribution and am getting a bit 
frustrated that such a simple thing is not working.

Gilbert


On 8/13/2014 3:44 PM, Kevin Fries wrote:
>
> Try starting your ntp manually:
>
>      systemstl start ntpd
>
> You may see an error message referring you to the journal.  Startup 
> scripts in SystemD are not difficult, but are very different and can 
> be a bit intimidating until you realize they are no different that 
> what you always used but in a different order.
>
> If it starts ok but not on boot, your enable command is not working 
> right.  The enable command should create a symlink very similar to the 
> old rc3.d=> init.d link of old, only the locations are different.  
> Then on startup, the system should run that script doing an equivalent 
> of systemctl start on it.
>
> So, try to start it manually and see what happens.
>
> Kevin
>
> On Aug 13, 2014 4:30 PM, "Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr." 
> <mailing-lists@phoenixinternet.net 
> <mailto:mailing-lists@phoenixinternet.net>> wrote:
>
>     I am playing with CentOS 7 and have been encountering some
>     difficulties. I was wondering if anyone else has attempted to use
>     it or is having problems?
>
>     <positive>
>     I was able to have the client machine join my Samba 4 windows
>     domain and am able to authenticate to it. Yea!
>
>     <negatives>
>     I cannot get ntp to start at statup. I am always having to
>     manually start it. I have run "systemctl enable ntpd.service"
>     which I understand is the correct command for systemd to have an
>     application start on boot (it was "chkconfig ntpd on" utilizing
>     previous versions).
>     There is the problem of applications... I cannot find a rdp client
>     on the distro or epel. I found rdesktop on a repository that I
>     have never used before and don't know if I trust.
>
>     I am thinking about trying Linux Mint (http://www.linuxmint.com/)
>     or kubuntu (http://www.kubuntu.org/). I am trying to see if I can
>     operate at my office without Windows. I am very comfortable with
>     CentOS versions prior to 7 am trying to stay with CentOS because
>     all of my servers are based on one version of CentOS or another. I
>     did not like CentOS 6 as a desktop and that is why I was trying 7.
>     Debian based distros have always been intimidating since I am used
>     to the package management, service calls, and locations of files
>     in CentOS.
>
>     Gilbert
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