How to disable Chronyd

Introduction

This guide will show you how to disable the NTP service chronyd.

Procedure

The following command will stop chrony and prevent it from running at boot:

systemctl disable --now chronyd

If you'd only like to stop the service, but want it to continue to start automatically on boot, run:

systemctl stop chronyd

While this command will prevent it from starting on boot:

systemctl disable chronyd

The official documentation on stopping and disabling chrony can be found below:

Disabling chrony