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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 15:04:21 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>, "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/6653
Message-ID:  <19980519150421.46455@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <680.895574604@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Tue, May 19, 1998 at 12:43:24PM %2B0200
References:  <Pine.BSF.3.91.980519203032.411U@panda.hilink.com.au> <680.895574604@critter.freebsd.dk>

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On Tue, May 19, 1998 at 12:43:24PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
> >Also, what is the purpose of /var/preserve, please?  Would that be a 
> >better place to locate ntp.drift, rather than /etc?
> 
> /var/preserve is for vi I belive.

>From hier(7):
     /var/    multi-purpose log, temporary, transient, and spool files
              preserve/  temporary home of files preserved after an accidental
                         death of an editor; see ex(1)


>  I put ntp.drift in /var/tmp

My preference would be for db:
              db/        misc. automatically generated system-specific
                         database files
though /var/tmp is probably OK, too (it is supposed to be kept between
reboots).

Eivind.

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