From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 10:09:34 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1352A16A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:09:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.97]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0235A43D39 for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:09:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin01-en2 [10.13.10.146]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id i2LI9VDF020261; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:09:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from [10.1.1.193] ([199.103.21.225]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin01/MantshX 3.0) with ESMTP id i2LI9TYO010462; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 10:09:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <1079891644.689.126.camel@ovirt.dyndns.ws> References: <20040321183020.A64884@tiscali.de> <1079891644.689.126.camel@ovirt.dyndns.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v613) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Charles Swiger Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:09:24 -0500 To: Wayne Sierke X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.613) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: sad@mailaps.org Subject: Re: [Q] Best location of ntpd driftfile ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 18:09:34 -0000 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