108.1 Maintain system time

108.1 Maintain system time

Reference to LPI objectives

LPIC-1 version 5.0, Exam 102, Objective 108.1

Weight

3

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.

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

  • chronyc

  • pool.ntp.org

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