Essential System Services Flashcards
Location of time zone files
/usr/share/zoneinfo
NTP configuration file
/etc/ntp.conf
ntpd
Daemon for NTP server
date
Print or set the system time and date
System file the system looks at to determine current time zone
/etc/timezone
ntpdate
Set and view the date abd time via NTP
hwclock -w
Set the hardware clock to the current system time
hwclock -s
Set the system time from hardware clock
pool.ntp.org
A virtual cluster of timeservers providing reliable easy to use NTP service
debug priority
Logs most detailed information
emerg priority
Logs most important information
err priority
Log regular errors
alert priority
Log messages classified as alert
logger
Used for manually logging data to the syslogd
logger -i
Returns process ID of logger process
logger -s
Output to standard error
logger -f
Send contents of your logging to log file
logger -p
Specify priority
