Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 13:09:24 -0500 From: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Wayne Sierke <ws+freebsd-questions@au.dyndns.ws> Cc: sad@mailaps.org Subject: Re: [Q] Best location of ntpd driftfile ? Message-ID: <E29F18F6-7B62-11D8-9E42-003065ABFD92@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <1079891644.689.126.camel@ovirt.dyndns.ws> References: <20040321183020.A64884@tiscali.de> <FC458871-7B5D-11D8-9E42-003065ABFD92@mac.com> <1079891644.689.126.camel@ovirt.dyndns.ws>
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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
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