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Use cryonyc

Use cryonyc

- [Instructor] Now that we have a time server and client configured, let's use a Chronyc command. In my rhhost1vm, I'm going to type into a terminal sudo space chronyc space tracking and hit enter. Type in your password if prompted. The Reference ID is the computer in which Chrony is currently synchronized to. The reference time is when the time was last processed from the source. The system time may be different from the actual time. Chrony doesn't change the time, but rather speeds up or slows down the system clock until the two are synchronized, so there's no jump in time. The frequency is the amount the system clock would be wrong if Chrony wasn't correcting it. Let's check the Chrony sources by typing in clear and then type in sudo space Chronyc space sources space dash v and hit enter. The dash v option provides more caption information. The source the source of subcommand shows information about current time sources. The left most character under the capital M is the source…

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