Chrony error: 506 Cannot talk to daemon

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • chronyc throws error as shown below for non root users.
testuser@test123 ~]$ chronyc tracking
506 Cannot talk to daemon

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • chrony

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