Add the following parameters in the /etc/rc.conf configuration file:
ntpd_enable=”YES” ntpd_sync_on_start=”YES”
add the line: pool de.pool.ntp.org iburst in /etc/ntp.conf file
iburst denotes that ntpd will perform a burst of 8 quick packet exchanges with a server when contact is first established, to help quickly synchronize system time.
The de prefix differs depending on the servers of the country you choose. In my case Germany. A complete list of active servers is on https://www.ntppool.org/en/
In addition, FreeBSD provides a project-sponsored pool, 0.freebsd.pool.ntp.org.
The supported hashing algorithms are DES, MD5, SHA256, SHA512, and Blowfish but the default is SHA512
Hashes that start with $6$ are indicative of SHA512
The settings are found in /etc/login.conf where :passwd_format=sha512:\ declares the preferred hashing algorithm
In order to change the hashing method execute cap_mkdb /etc/login.conf. It will only affect the new passwords. The old ones need to be re-hashed by asking users to run passwd in order to change their password
According to the 2023’s Second Quarter Status Report boot optimizations speed up kernel boot process.
The developer Colin Percival implemented a mergesort algorithm instead of the 30+ year old bubblesort of SYSINITs.
Bubblesort is a sorting algortithm that compares each element of an array with the next one and sorts them, whereas mergesort divides the array into subarrays. This system boosted speed by a factor of 100x.
One of them is associated with the update process of the freebsd-update tool, as it incorrectly deleted files in /etc/, in case that the file to be updated matched the new release and was different than the old release …
Yeap sounds pretty … serious 🙂 Funny is that in order to apply the patch you have to use the same freebsd-update command lol
Ηταν 19 Ιουνίου του 1993 όταν επιλέχτηκε το όνομα του λειτουργικού συστήματος FreeBSD το οποίο προήλθε από το 386BSD, με την πρώτη ιστορική έκδοση στις 1η Νοεμβρίου 1993.
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