Working with Linux howtos

• Working with RPM
• Package Management Made Easy With Apt
• Moving files around: Setting up FTP
• SCP: an FTP alternative
• SFTP: Easy jailed accounts
• Backup FTP server: offsite backups that you control
• Automated incremental backups: Script to automate backups using SSHFS and rdiff-backup
• Backups with rSync
• Automated backups with RSync
• Load balancing and failover
• Accurate time with NTP
• Setting a UTC timezone
• Changing a hostname
• Application environment setup (using bash profiles)
• Using find and xargs
• Setting up disk quotas
• Working with Bash aliases

Setting a UTC Timezone

Scenario: The hosting company is in country W; the data center is in timezone X; the customer is in country Y; and their users are in country Z.

What timezone should you use for your server?  Perhaps you should try Universal Co-ordinated Time (UTC).

vi /etc/sysconfig/clock and change the UTC line to: "UTC=true"

Set localtimezone to UTC: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/UTC /etc/localtime

If you want to set your timezone to something else, perhaps your personal timezone, then you find that timezone under /usr/share/zoneinfo and link that to /etc/localtime.  For example: ln -sf /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Brisbane /etc/localtime.