RHCSA RHEL 8 – Configure time service clients – Computers, Security & Gadgets

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This video is based on RHEL 8. Video to cover the section ‘Configure time service clients’ for the RHCSA (Red Hat Certified System Administrator).

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Notes from the video:

To show the current date and time:

# date

To use date to print out the current date and time in a particular format you can use the date variable for example:

# date +%d%m%y-%H%M%S

This can be used in a script to produce a new log file name everytime the script is run for example:

# touch logfile-`date +%d%m%y-%H%M%S`.log

Will output a log file with the current date and time.

To get the current hardware clock time:

# hwclock

To set the system clock to hardware clock:

# hwclock -s

To set the hardware clock to the system clock:

# hwclock -w

The main command for managing the time is timedatectl, to see the current time and timezone information:

# timedatectl

To manually set the date and time:

# timedatectl set-time 2020-18-03

# timedatectl set-time 10:26:00

To set the timezone:

# timedatectl set-timezone Australia/Melbourne

To list all available timezones:

# timedatectl list-timezones

To get the timedatectl to use the Network Time Protocol (NTP):

# timedatectl set-ntp yes

The NTP deamon is no longer used as of RHEL8 so we need to use chrony. To install the application run:

# dnf install chronyd

Then start and enable the service:

# systemctl start chronyd

# systemctl enable chronyd

To edit the servers list edit the chrony.conf file and add entries starting with “server then IP address” and restart the chronyd service:

# vi /etc/chrony.conf

# systemctl restart chronyd

To see which servers chronyd is currently syncing with run:

# chronyc sources