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diff --git a/docs/mcc-help/en/drakwizard_ntp.xml b/docs/mcc-help/en/drakwizard_ntp.xml index b149088f..656e2851 100644 --- a/docs/mcc-help/en/drakwizard_ntp.xml +++ b/docs/mcc-help/en/drakwizard_ntp.xml @@ -1,4 +1,11 @@ -<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><section 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" xml:id="drakwizard_ntp" version="5.0"> +<?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> @@ -9,56 +16,109 @@ <mediaobject> <imageobject> - <imagedata revision="1" fileref="drakwizard_ntp.png" xml:id="drakwizard_ntp-im1" align="center" format="PNG"/> + <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> + <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> - <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> + <section> + <title>Setup a NTP server with drakwizard ntp</title> - <mediaobject> - <imageobject> - <imagedata fileref="drakwizard-ntp1.png"/> - </imageobject> - </mediaobject> + <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-ntp2.png"> - <info> - <author> - <personname/> - </author> - - <pubdate/> - </info> - </imagedata> - </imageobject> - </mediaobject> + <mediaobject> + <imageobject> + <imagedata fileref="drakwizard-ntp1.png"/> + </imageobject> + </mediaobject> - <para/> + <mediaobject> + <imageobject> + <imagedata fileref="drakwizard-ntp2.png"> + <info> + <author> + <personname/> + </author> - <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> + <pubdate/> + </info> + </imagedata> + </imageobject> + </mediaobject> + </step> - <mediaobject> - <imageobject> - <imagedata fileref="drakwizard-ntp3.png"/> - </imageobject> - </mediaobject> + <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> - <para/> + <listitem> + <para>Stopping and starting <code>crond</code>, <code>atd</code> and + <code>ntpd</code> services;</para> + </listitem> - <para>Click on the <guibutton>Finish</guibutton> button to close the - tool</para> -</section>
\ No newline at end of file + <listitem> + <para>Setting the hardware clock to the current system time with UTC + reference.</para> + </listitem> + </itemizedlist></para> + </section> +</section> |