Building the New Server - Part 3 - Configuring Everything

I reinstalled and configured software as outlined here, although I had to reverse the SSH and repository steps commenting out the CD as a source since I have no CD-ROM (more on that later). Also, I ran through the additional configuration steps here, here, and here.

While I was messing around, I installed ntpdate to automatically set the clock every hour.

Install the software

sudo apt-get install ntpdate

Run the script to set the clock

sudo /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate

Edit /etc/default/ntpdate to use your favorite time servers.

Mine are tick.cerias.purdue.edu and tock.cerias.purdue.edu.

Add the job to the CRON list.

crontab -e

Insert this text and save and close the file

@hourly /etc/network/if-up.d/ntpdate