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Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 16:04:52 -0600
From: Doug Poland <doug@polands.org>
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Subject: purpose of /var/backups
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Hello,

On my 5.3-STABLE systems I have a directory in /var called backups.  A
view of man hier says: 

   backups/   miscellaneous backup files

with files like:

  aliases.bak
  aliases.bak2
  group.bak
  group.bak2
  master.passwd.bak
  master.passwd.bak2

I'm curious, what process are writing these files to this directory?
Does something depend on these files existing?

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Regards,
Doug