Re: [chrony-dev] Re: 1.24-pre1

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On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 02:03:46PM -0800, Bill Unruh wrote:
> In fact, since /etc is usually writable only by root, This whole file creation
> process will not work in general since the chrony files are in /etc ( rather
> than say in /etc/chrony which could be made writable by the user of chronyd)
> Maybe it is time to make the config files be in /etc/chrony, instead of the
> default of just putting them into /etc.

According to FHS in /etc should be only read-only files (there are
some exceptions).

The correct place for the drift and rtc files is /var/lib/chrony which
is owned by user chrony so there is no problem with writing files
without root privileges.

The documentation should be updated.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar

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