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Date:      Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:30:20 +0000
From:      "Stefan A. Deutscher" <sa.deutscher@tiscali.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   [Q] Best location of ntpd driftfile ?
Message-ID:  <20040321183020.A64884@tiscali.de>

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Hi all,

  setting up ntpd, I find that its default location for the drift file
is /etc/ntp.drift.

In a way it is part of the configuration an may well belong in /etc, on
the other hand I'd rather just have files in /etc which _I_ modify.

I would expect the content of ntpd.drift to vary over time, and somehow
I would have expected it to belong in the /var part of the hierarchy,
but 'man hier' does not offer any serious evidence (should it be
/var/db/ntp.dift)?

So, what's the canonical way to place this file? (And no, I do _not_
want to know at this time whether anal-retentive is spelt with or
without a hyphen. I will post that question in a separate thread as need
arises :-)


Cheers,
           Stefan



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