chronyd service failed to start at boot

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • Chronyd.service fails to start at boot and also manually with systemctl.

  • When chronyd fails to start,it reports wrong argument in /etc/sysconfig/chronyd configuration file.

    Jan 15 09:32:42 abchost chronyd[1139]: Fatal error : Invalid directive at line 1
Jan 15 09:32:42 abchost chronyd[1132]: Invalid directive at line 1
Jan 15 09:32:42 abchost systemd[1]: chronyd.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Jan 15 09:32:43 abchost systemd[1]: chronyd.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • chronyd

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