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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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>Also, what is the purpose of /var/preserve, please?  Would that be a 
>better place to locate ntp.drift, rather than /etc?

See hier(7).  Anywhere in /var (except /var/run :-) would be better than
/etc for ntp.drift.  I use /var/ntp for ntp's driftfile and statsdir.
A directory just for the driftfile is too much, but ntp can produce a
lot of statistics.

Bruce

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