Date:        Thu, 15 Jun 2000 09:43:56 -0500
    From:        seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach)
    Message-ID:  <200006151443.JAA07361@guild.plethora.net>

  | FWIW, BSD/OS has it in /var/db, which I think is also fairly plausibl=
e.

Yes, almost anywhere outside /var/run

  | I think it does add useful information; naive users may not know when=
 it
  | was created,

na=EFve users don't tend to know that dmesg exists...

  | and may assume that it's magically current,

And ones who have learned enough to know what dmesg means will
typically also have learned how to drive "ls -l" to see the mod
time of a file.

kre