Chapter 8Topic 108: Essential System Services

THE FOLLOWING EXAM OBJECTIVES ARE COVERED IN THIS CHAPTER:

  • images  108.1 Maintain system time.
    • 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
      • chronyc
      • pool.ntp.org
  •   108.2 System logging
    • Key knowledge areas: ...

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