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Re: /run in *unstable*: migration of /lib/init/rw, /dev/.*



On Sat, 14 May 2011, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> ]] Kurt Roeckx 
> | On Sat, May 14, 2011 at 04:55:01PM +0100, Roger Leigh wrote:
> | > Packages using /etc
> | >   /etc/adjtime 
> | 
> | That file should probably not be in /etc in the first place,
> | but be somewhere under /var/lib.  Since FHS 2.2 it even mentions
> | that this file should be /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime.
> 
> It should be on the root fs, else your clock will be wrong in early
> bootup leading to all kinds of bugs.

Indeed.  We've dissected this issue before, there's a thread about it in the
d-devel archives.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
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