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Date:      Tue, 19 May 1998 10:53:25 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bin/6653
Message-ID:  <199805191453.KAA20305@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199805191310.GAA28279@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <199805191310.GAA28279@freefall.freebsd.org>

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<<On Tue, 19 May 1998 06:10:01 -0700 (PDT), Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> said:

>  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).
 
I prefer /etc, since it is security-sensitive, and someone who is
likewise concerned with security will take additional steps to secure
/etc.

-GAWollman

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