LPIC-1 102 108.1 Maintain system time

• 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.
• Knowledge of using the pool.ntp.org service

Terms and Utilities

• /usr/share/zoneinfo
• /etc/timezone
• /etc/localtime
• /etc/ntp.conf
• date
• hwclock
• ntpd
• ntpdate
• pool.ntp.org