This tool[9] 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.
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.
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
button. If everything is right, click on the button to proceed to the test. It may take a while and you finally get this screen below:Click on the
button to close the tool
This tool executes the following steps:
Installing the package
ntp
if neededSaving the files
/etc/sysconfig/clock
to/etc/sysconfig/clock.orig
and/etc/ntp/step-tickers
to/etc/ntp/step-tickers.orig
;Writing a new file
/etc/ntp/step-tickers
with the list of servers;Modifying the file
/etc/ntp.conf
by inserting the first server name;Stopping and starting
crond
,atd
andntpd
services;Setting the hardware clock to the current system time with UTC reference.