[ntp:questions] Apple Mac mini instabiliy
Uwe Klein
uwe_klein_habertwedt at t-online.de
Thu Feb 1 13:42:43 UTC 2007
Steve Kostecke wrote:
> On 2007-02-01, Dmitry Ivanov <dimss at telecentrs.lv> wrote:
>
>
>>BTW Apple uses /var/run/ntp.drift file to store drift value. This is
>>stupid because contents of /var/run is lost after reboot. I've
>>changed this to /etc/ntp.drift.
is the /var tree realy trashed at boottime?
the idea with "/var" was to have a distinct path that needs RW access
were all other stuff from / , /bin/ ... can be mounted RO
For volatile storage /tmp and/or /var/tmp is used.
This would mean that apple is happily doing footperforation.
G!
uwe
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