Summary

In this chapter, the main focus was on the maintenance of the system's time and logging. In particular, we looked at ways in which we can manipulate the system time; we worked extensively with the date and timedatectl commands. Additionally, we touched on regular expressions for changing the date. Furthermore, we worked with the hardware clock; we saw ways to sync the system clock with the hardware clock and vice versa. Moving on, we worked with logging; we explored the common log files. The /var/log/syslog file was explored in the Ubuntu environment, whereas the journalctl command was used extensively in Fedora 28 for viewing the logs. Finally, we worked with remote logging; we installed the rsyslog package in the Fedora 28 and configured it as a rsyslog client. We then went over to Ubuntu 18 and configured its /etc/rsyslog.conf file to accept remote logs and use...