Here is another issue that I would like to see if there is consensus if it
should be included in L1, and to what extent:
A task from the JAS-2 was delegated for incorporation into L1:
"
1.2.16
none
Configure ntp.conf and ntp.drift to be used by xntpd
Kara: NTP is not covered currently by Level 1. Move to seed item
into Level 1 during re-write.
"
This task pre-supposes that time is properly managed on the system, and
also that system time actually is regularly corrected using NTP. The
matter is, that tasks on system clock management have never been included
in the surveys. IMNSHO this is an important oversight of the surveys, and
I believe that time management are required tasks for sysadmins. I will
go so far as to list tasks that I think should go into a L1
objective; please let me know what you think, and also how important these
tasks are in relation to existing test objectives.
- set the hardware (BIOS) clock to the correct date and time
- set the system date and time
- configure the correct timezone for the system
- synchronize the hardware clock and the system time
- configure the system to regularly synchronize the clock over the
network using NTP, and configure correction for clock drift
- Best Practice: maintain the BIOS clock in UTC, configure the timezone
such that the system time counts local time
- use commands date, hwclock, ntpdate, ntpd
- be familar with the timezone database in /usr/share/zoneinfo/
- maintain config files /etc/ntp.conf, /etc/ntp.keys, /etc/ntp.drift,
/etc/timezone, /etc/localtime
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Linux Professional Institute
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