[Q] Best location of ntpd driftfile ?

[Charles Swiger]

On Mar 21, 2004, at 12:54 PM, Wayne Sierke wrote:
[ ...with regard to where ntp.drift should be... ]
> Looks like it's been moved to /var/db/ntpd.drift in FreeBSD-5

Well, that's reasonable, too.

Now that I'm thinking about this, in particular, moving files which 
change regularly out of /etc into /var helps one mount root (/) 
read-only, which is sometimes desirable for embedded appliances and the 
like which boot off of limited-write media like compact-flash...

-- 
-Chuck