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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<section version="5.0" xml:id="drakwizard_ntp"
+ xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
+ xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"
+ xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
+ xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
+ xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
+ xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook">
+ <info>
+ <title xml:id="drakwizard_ntp-ti1">Configure time</title>
+
+ <subtitle>drakwizard ntp</subtitle>
+ </info>
+
+ <!-- 2013-10-25 Lebarhon - 3 screenshots ready to be added when it is possible -->
+
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata align="center" fileref="drakwizard_ntp.png" format="PNG"
+ revision="1" xml:id="drakwizard_ntp-im1"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+
+ <para>This tool<footnote>
+ <para>You can start this tool from the command line, by typing <emphasis
+ role="bold">drakwizard ntp</emphasis> as root.</para>
+ </footnote> purpose is to set the time of your server synchronised with an
+ external server. It isn't installed by default and you have to also install
+ the drakwizard and drakwizard-base packages.</para>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>Setup a NTP server with drakwizard ntp</title>
+
+ <procedure>
+ <step>
+ <para>After a welcome screen (see above), the second one ask you to
+ choose three time servers in the drop down lists and suggests to use
+ pool.ntp.org twice because this server always points to available time
+ servers.</para>
+
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="drakwizard-ntp1.png"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="drakwizard-ntp2.png">
+ <info>
+ <author>
+ <personname/>
+ </author>
+
+ <pubdate/>
+ </info>
+ </imagedata>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </step>
+
+ <step>
+ <para>The following screens allows to choose the region and the city
+ and then, you arrive on a summary. If something is wrong, you can
+ obviously change it using the <guibutton>Previous</guibutton>button.
+ If everything is right, click on the <guibutton>Next</guibutton>
+ button to proceed to the test. It may take a while and you finally get
+ this screen below:</para>
+
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata fileref="drakwizard-ntp3.png"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+ </step>
+
+ <step>
+ <para>Click on the <guibutton>Finish</guibutton> button to close the
+ tool</para>
+ </step>
+ </procedure>
+
+ <para/>
+ </section>
+
+ <section>
+ <title>What is done</title>
+
+ <para>This tool executes the following steps:</para>
+
+ <para><itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Installing the package <code>ntp</code> if needed</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Saving the files <code>/etc/sysconfig/clock</code> to
+ <code>/etc/sysconfig/clock.orig</code> and
+ <code>/etc/ntp/step-tickers</code> to
+ <code>/etc/ntp/step-tickers.orig</code>;</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Writing a new file <code>/etc/ntp/step-tickers</code> with the
+ list of servers;</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Modifying the file <code>/etc/ntp.conf</code> by inserting the
+ first server name;</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Stopping and starting <code>crond</code>, <code>atd</code> and
+ <code>ntpd</code> services;</para>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
+ <para>Setting the hardware clock to the current system time with UTC
+ reference.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist></para>
+ </section>
+</section>