Torsten Scheck wrote:
>
[good discussion about hardware vs system clocks deleted]
All well and good. But what I want my admins to know and understand is
this:
You install Linux to a brand new system. The system will be an Internet
server (but regardless I expect this done), so must have accurate system
and (by extension) hardware clock time (in case it goes down it will
come back up with the correct time).
The easiest way to do this during install is:
(make sure you have TZ set correctly and exported and a link from
/etc/localtime --> /usr/share/timezones/XXX/YYY
ntpdate time.nist.gov
hwclock -u --systohc
(Internet servers _always_ use GMT, only dual-boot Windoze systems
suffer from needing to use localtime).
If the folks know the above, I'm happy. For level 1 the TZ stuff is
handled by the distro. For level 2, I expect the above. For level 3
(wizard), I expect them to actually understand and be able to explain
this to me (what each line is and does and why it's important).
Further, level 1 (with prior instruction) or 2 (with no prior
instruction, the documentation is written for engineers and programmers,
not sysadmins) should be able to configure and run ntp.
Ciao,
David A. Bandel
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