Miscellaneous FreeBSD bits

There are a few other things that are worth configuring but don't really fall into any of the previous sections so I'll just lump them in together here.

ntpdate

The station module requires that the clock on the server be reasonably accurate. FreeBSD can use the Network Time Protocol (NTP) to synchronize your server's clock to a time server. To enable the ntpdate script, you'll need to add the following lines to your /etc/rc.conf file:

ntpdate_enable="YES"
ntpdate_flags="north-america.pool.ntp.org"

Next you'll want to add a cron job to the root user's crontab file:

$ crontab -e

The following entry will synchronize the clock every morning:

# Every morning at 4am update the clock.
0 4 * * * /etc/rc.d/ntpdate start > /dev/null

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