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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:09:24 -0500
From:      Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
To:        Wayne Sierke <ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws>
Cc:        sad@mailaps.org
Subject:   Re: [Q] Best location of ntpd driftfile ?
Message-ID:  <E29F18F6-7B62-11D8-9E42-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
In-Reply-To: <1079891644.689.126.camel@ovirt.dyndns.ws>
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On Mar 21, 2004, at 12:54 PM, Wayne Sierke wrote:
[ ...with regard to where ntp.drift should be... ]
> Looks like it's been moved to /var/db/ntpd.drift in FreeBSD-5

Well, that's reasonable, too.

Now that I'm thinking about this, in particular, moving files which 
change regularly out of /etc into /var helps one mount root (/) 
read-only, which is sometimes desirable for embedded appliances and the 
like which boot off of limited-write media like compact-flash...

-- 
-Chuck



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