for Centos 7, chrony is used in place of ntp.comparing chrony vs ntp, >>> http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/manual.html#Other-time-synchronisation-packages to check what files chrony package installed, rpm -ql chrony [root@localhost ~]# rpm -ql chrony/etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/20-chrony/etc/chrony.conf/etc/chrony.keys/etc/dhcp/dhclient.d/chrony.sh/etc/logrotate.d/chrony/usr/bin/chronyc/usr/lib/systemd/ntp-units.d/50-chronyd.list/usr/lib/systemd/system/chrony-wait.service/usr/lib/systemd/system/chronyd.service/usr/libexec/chrony-helper/usr/sbin/chronyd/usr/share/doc/chrony-1.29.1/usr/share/doc/chrony-1.29.1/COPYING/usr/share/doc/chrony-1.29.1/NEWS/usr/share/doc/chrony-1.29.1/README/usr/share/doc/chrony-1.29.1/chrony.conf.example/usr/share/doc/chrony-1.29.1/chrony.conf.example2/usr/share/doc/chrony-1.29.1/chrony.keys.example/usr/share/doc/chrony-1.29.1/chrony.txt/usr/share/doc/chrony-1.29.1/faq.txt/usr/share/info/chrony.info.gz/usr/share/man/man1/chrony.1.gz/usr/share/man/man1/chronyc.1.gz/usr/share/man/man5/chrony.conf.5.gz/usr/share/man/man8/chronyd.8.gz/var/lib/chrony/var/lib/chrony/drift/var/lib/chrony/rtc/var/log/chrony