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

[Greg Troxel]

"Gary E. Miller" <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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

The BSD hier(7) predates the FHS, and I don't think the BSDs have
changed paths.   My impresssion is that the FHS is really a Linux
standard.

> 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

I was just pointing out that text that pretended  to be general was
Linux specific, and that naming practice on NetBSD (and I believe the
other ones) was different.

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