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LPI Linux Certification/Maintain System Time
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Detailed Objectives
(LPIC-1 Version 5.0)
Weight: 3
Description:
Candidates should be able to properly maintain the system time and synchronize the clock via NTP.
Key Knowledge Areas:
Set the system date and time.
Set the hardware clock to the correct time in UTC.
Configure the correct timezone.
Basic NTP configuration using ntpd and chrony.
Knowledge of using the pool.ntp.org service.
Awareness of the ntpq command.
The following is a partial list of the used files, terms and utilities:
/usr/share/zoneinfo/
/etc/timezone
/etc/localtime
/etc/ntp.conf
/etc/chrony.conf
date
hwclock
timedatectl
ntpd
ntpdate
chrony
pool.ntp.org
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