[ntp:hackers] statsdir defaults to /var/NTP

David L. Mills mills at udel.edu
Mon Jun 11 09:34:22 PDT 2007


Brian,

See /opt.

Dave

Brian Utterback wrote:

> On Solaris we build with a default /var/ntp/ntp.drift for the
>
> drift file and we also create a directory /var/ntp/ntpstats
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> for the stats files.
>
>
> Dave, what all CAPS directories do you mean? The only ones I know
>
> about are X11, X11R6 and TT_DB, all of which were mandated for
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> compatibility with other OS's.
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>
> Harlan Stenn wrote:
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>> Dave,
>>
>>
>>> Safest is /var/spool/ntpstats, and that's what I use in most 
>>> machints. Only Sun uses all-caps directory names. Makes me shudder.
>>>
>>
>> So far nobody has suggested that I keep the current default.  I'll be
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>> sure to check with Brian.
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>>
>> I suspect most folks will provide an explicit setting anyway, so our
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>> choice of default may not matter much.
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>>
>> H
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