How to restart Linux NTPD service

After changes to the NTP configuration file (usually ntp.conf) the NTP service needs to be restarted. Lets find out how to do that

The exact command depends on your Linux distribution.

The NTP service on your machine could be any one of the following:

• ntpd ( you probably need this one on most Linux distro's )
• xntpd
• openntpd

Debian or Ubuntu based systems (older versions)

 sudo service ntp restart

Debian 9.x+ or Ubuntu 16.04+ LTS based systems

sudo systemctl restart ntp

Red Hat or Fedora or CentOs (older versions)

sudo service ntpd restart

Red Hat or Fedora or CentOs (7.x+)

sudo systemctl restart ntpd

Check the status of NTP service restart

Depending on if you used ntp or ntpd in the commands above, you can use the following command to check the status of the NTP service restart

sudo systemctl status ntp

or

sudo systemctl status ntpd

Today,we learned how to restart the ntp service on Linux based Distro's

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