Question

How we can Install and Configure Linux NTP Server and Client?

Answer 1

NTP stands for Network Time Protocol.

It is used to synchronize the time on your Linux system with a centralized NTP server.

A local NTP server on the network can be synchronized with an external timing source to keep all the servers in your organization in-sync with an accurate time.

I. Configure NTP server

1. Install NTP Server

First, install NTP package on your server using the appropriate package management tool that is available on your Linux distro.

For example, on RedHat or CentOS, use yum to install ntp as shown below: