Re: [gpsd-dev] [PATCH] Improve chrony examples in time howto.

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:18:16 -0500
Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:

> 
> Miroslav Lichvar <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > - recommended place for the drift file is in /var/lib
> 
> That sounds linux specific.  On NetBSD (and probably others, following
> hier(7) from 4.4BSD) it's /var/db/ntp.drift.
> I'm unclear on chrony, but it belongs in /var/db as well.

The Unix File Hierarchy Standard (FHS) Ver 2.3 does not even mention
a /var/db.

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html

It does mmention /var/lib/:

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLIBVARIABLESTATEINFORMATION

So my vote would be for /var/lib/chrony/drift.  It is also the example
chrony themseles profide:
        http://chrony.tuxfamily.org/manual.html#driftfile-directive




RGDS
GARY
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