Configure Time Service Clients

Introduction

In this challenge, you will learn how to configure time service clients on a Linux system. Keeping accurate time is essential for many system operations, such as logging, security, and synchronization. By the end of this challenge, you will be able to set up and verify the time service configuration on a Linux system.

Skills Graph

Configure Time Service Clients

Tasks

• Configure the system to use a specific NTP (Network Time Protocol) server as the time source.
• Verify the time service configuration and ensure the system is synchronizing with the NTP server.

Requirements

• The NTP server address is time.google.com.
• The time zone must be set to America/New_York.
• The system's time must be synchronized with the NTP server within 5 minutes after the configuration.

Example

After the time service configuration is complete, the system's time should be accurate and synchronized with the NTP server. You can verify this by running the following command:

timedatectl status

The output should show that the system is synchronized with the NTP server and the time zone is set to America/New_York.

Summary

In this challenge, you learned how to configure time service clients on a Linux system. You set up the Chrony NTP client to use the time.google.com server as the time source and verified the time zone and time synchronization. These skills are essential for maintaining accurate time on your Linux systems, which is crucial for various system operations and services.