Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 06:10:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/6653
Message-ID:  <199805191310.GAA28279@freefall.freebsd.org>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
The following reply was made to PR bin/6653; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>,
        "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
Cc: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: bin/6653
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:04:21 +0200

 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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199805191310.GAA28279>