From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 19 06:04:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA08254 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Tue, 19 May 1998 06:04:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA08227; Tue, 19 May 1998 06:04:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA24607; Tue, 19 May 1998 13:04:23 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id PAA27379; Tue, 19 May 1998 15:04:22 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980519150421.46455@follo.net> Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:04:21 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Poul-Henning Kamp , "Daniel O'Callaghan" Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/6653 References: <680.895574604@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <680.895574604@critter.freebsd.dk>; from Poul-Henning Kamp on Tue, May 19, 1998 at 12:43:24PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message