LPI Linux Certification/Maintain System Time

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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