Who has "/var/lib/hwclock/adjtime"?

[Peter S. Mazinger]

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Rob Landley wrote:

> On Thursday 01 September 2005 07:52, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> > On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Rob Landley wrote:
> > > So hwclock.c is looking for adjtime in a very strange place.  I thought
> > > it was supposed to be /etc/adjtime (which can be a symlink if /etc isn't
> > > writeable. All sorts of stuff gets mad if /etc is read only, starting
> > > with "passwd"...)
> > >
> > > Is there a reason for this?
> >
> > FHS-2.3 is the reason.
> >
> > Peter
> 
> FHS 2.3 says it's optional, and notes that in FHS 2.1 it was in /etc.  It is 
> quite possible to put a symlink in /etc to some other location when /etc 
> isn't writeable.  And there are many things in /etc (like passwd) that get 
> updated.
> 
> I don't currently have a system that actually follows what FHS 2.3 says.  They 
> all have it in /etc.  And burying it three directories deep seems really 
> really stupid to me.  (/var/lib?  Since when is hwclock a library?)

/var/lib/{rpm,dhcp*,clamav,ipac,ntp,samba,slocate}

none of these are libraries either
For 1 file (like adjtime) /var/lib/misc could be a good place too.

Peter

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