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

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Mon, 04 Nov 2013 15:26:58 -0500
Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:

> > 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.

We should be so lucky that all Linux actually followed it.

Wikipedia claims "it is a formalization and extension of the traditional
BSD filesystem hierarchy.", so it has a good pedigree. :-)

> > 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.

And your patch would be what?  Maybe footnotes?

If you hva installed chrony on BSD can you tell use where it puts the
socket files?  I would be interested to see if it annoys BSD folks
enough to tweak the upstream.

RGDS
GARY
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